The most damaging misconception about addiction is that it reflects a lack of willpower, weak character or poor moral choices ...

Anchorage cannot keep saying it wants more behavioral health treatment, crisis stabilization and addiction services, then reject every real-world location where those services might actually ...

Vigo County’s criminal justice system is bringing back a program designed to address the needs of people with mental health/substance use issues who have been charged with misdemeanors. Participants ...

Two people can carry identical struggles and need opposite things to recover. Here's how personalized care beats prescriptive ...

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Anthony Pompliano, the financial guru known for his early advocacy of Bitcoin, is throwing his weight behind a fledgling podcast that seeks to combat addiction – and sports gambling will be a key ...

The government has announced a £9 million funding boost to help double the number of intensive supervision courts - which it describes as ‘tough Texas-style’. Intensive supervision courts, piloted in ...

For new discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines, follow NPR's ShortWave podcast . Over a century ago, the German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler conducted what became a ...

Bumblebees faced with a challenge know how to play ball. Buff-tailed bumblebees can figure out on their own how to use a ball as a ladder to nab sugar from an out-of-reach fake flower, researchers ...

Despite having tiny brains, bumblebees have demonstrated a remarkable ability to socially learn how to use tools, solve simple puzzles, and cooperate to achieve a goal. It seems they can also solve ...

In a new study, bumble bees solve a completely novel object-manipulation task. What makes this behavior especially remarkable is that the bees had never been trained. The findings challenge the ...

German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler set up a famous experiment more than 100 years ago that changed how scientists understand animal intelligence and the power of insight — or spontaneous ...