Browsing: addiction

It all starts with the coil. Of course it does. This is Davina, and Davina McCall doesn’t do personal by halves. “I loved the coil, but…

My mother, Margaret, died in 2018 at 75. It was a good death, all things considered. The very end was savage, as endings often are, but…

Walking down their local high streets, people in Britain are increasingly unlikely to come across a local butcher, baker or grocery shop, and more likely to…

BBCLucy says her experiences of shopping addiction are like a “physical and an emotional drowning”A day of retail therapy can be just the ticket for some…

Members of Jane’s Addiction have sued the alt-rock band’s lead singer, Perry Farrell, after an on-stage altercation last fall that they claim derailed their North American…

Massive Study Flips Our Story of Addiction and the BrainBrain differences in children and teens who experiment with drugs early show up before they take their…

Ruth CleggHealth and wellbeing reporter, BBC NewsGetty ImagesEmma is doing something she swore she would never do.In an attempt to have some control over her children’s…

A protestor marks International Overdose Awareness Day in Manhattan last August. Overdose deaths were down in recent months, and Democrats are questioning the wisdom of changing…

Hala Alyan in Brooklyn, New York, on 28 May 2025. ‘You exist in both identities like a ghost,’ she says of being Palestinian American. Photograph: Kholood…