For decades, the mainstream approach to dealing with addiction has been to treat it as a disease that needs a cure. But neuroscientist Marc Lewis, a former addict himself, says that approach actually ...

I've known a lot of addicts in my life - some of them all too well. Some were hooked on booze, some on cigarettes, a few on pot and one or two on harder stuff. Sometimes, their destructive behaviour ...

Book review: A neuroscientist who was addicted to opiates takes aim at the idea that addiction is a disease What Western culture once considered moral failings, it increasingly sees as natural ...

Former England rugby captain Lewis Moody has been diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND). The 47-year-old flanker, who won several titles throughout his 16-year career, discovered he had the ...