addiction

A new study suggests always-improving video games are keeping young men without college educations unemployed or out of the workforce entirely.

There’s a trillion-dollar underground economy hiding in plain sight, says Steven Kotler, and it can be measured in dopamine.

Just like alcohol, nicotine and other narcotics, sugar tickles our dopamine receptors in just the right way, inspiring our brain’s reward system. How will this end for us?

Is the technology of the future more radical than the technology of the past? Alison Gopnik provides some historical perspective.

The surgeon general is pleading for a fundamental shift in how we think about addiction.

60% of pain patients find that tolerance buildup significantly impedes their treatment over time.   

Seattle has a new plan to reduce HIV, drug overdoses, and stray needles: it wants to let addicts shoot heroin and smoke crack legally in monitored spaces.

Who are you? Good question. Harvard professor Michael Puett explores the idea of the “self”, and how what you believe to be your true nature may actually just be patterns you’ve fallen into.