The Brief Addiction Science Information Source (BASIS)

Seeing Addiction as a Learning Disorder Changes Everything

Editor’s note: The following op-ed was written by Maia Szalavitz as part of our Special Series on Pathways to Addiction. Ms. Szalavitz is the author of Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction and Undoing Drugs: How Harm Reduction is Changing the Future of Drugs and Addiction. She is also a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. Read more →

STASH, Vol. 19(3) – First impressions matter: Initial positive experiences with substance use predict the development of substance use disorders

This week, as part of our Special Series on Pathways to Addiction, STASH reviews a study by Neil Varshneya and colleagues that examined how initial positive experiences with substances predicts the likelihood of developing a substance use disorder later in life. Read more →

Regulating Addictive Substances: It’s Time to Protect Our Teens

Editor’s note: The following op-ed was written by Sharon Levy, MD, MPH, Director of the Adolescent Substance Use and Addiction Program at Boston Children's Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. This op-ed is part of our Special Series on Pathways to Addiction. Read more →

ASHES, Vol. 19(3) – Passed down: Parental vaping predicts children’s vaping use

This week, as part of our Special Series on Pathways to Addiction, ASHES reviews a study by Jennifer Bailey and colleagues that examines the relationship between parental e-cigarette use and their children’s use. Read more →

Introduction to the Special Series on Pathways to Addiction

This month, The BASIS is highlighting pathways to addiction. Throughout March, we will review recent research on the risk factors for and pathways to addiction, and also share editorials from experts in the field of addiction science. John Slabczynski, Research Coordinator at the Division on Addiction, introduces our Special Series. Read more →