Michael Dhar

In California and beyond, an unprecedented "experiment" is giving tens of thousands of non-violent offenders the chance of alternatives to prison. Most have severe drug problems. What are their prospects?

The newly revised, hotly contested book of psychiatric diagnoses is finally here. How will it change the way we consider and treat substance use problems?

The 1,000-page psychiatrists' Big Book will redefine addiction. Critics are already demanding a boycott.