Roger Scruton, Britain's foremost conservative philosopher, offers a traditionalist manifesto to discomfit both the left and American free-marketeers.

A neuroscientist recalls how a host of substances took over his life and how, at last, he learned to impose new patterns of thought and behavior.

The death of Amy Winehouse was caused by more than just drugs or alcohol.

Strict monitoring, with predictable and meaningful consequences is often the best medicine for people with addictions.

Why is marijuana, of all drugs, the main target of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy?

Rather than concentrating on what the U.S. can do now to increase supply, the President instead decided to use a word that is straight out of the radical environmentalists' dictionary: "addicted."

The word "addiction" is perilously close to losing any meaning, especially if lawyers can turn fast food into an addiction and pin liability on restaurants.

The latest bad rap for OxyContin threatens to inflict more pain on those who truly benefit from the drug.