When a cocaine addict relapses, it isn't a matter of personal failure—it's the biological result of their brain's rewiring, ...

"It was day and night," the singer and Oscar winner said of how much she and the famous director abused cocaine.

Cocaine addiction isn’t simply a failure of willpower — it’s the result of lasting biological changes in the brain.

Upon the recent death of the luminous Diane Keaton, forever “Annie Hall,” I found myself reflecting on the cocaine epidemic epitomized by that movie, because, now, cocaine is back, but more lethal, ...

Athletes, actors, politicians, and others often develop substance abuse disorders and some die from drug-related deaths. At the same time, their life history, drug use, and risk-taking shows the rest ...