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The default assumption is that residential is the serious option and outpatient is the compromise. The evidence does not support that, and the real decision turns on something else.

There are real randomised trials now, and there is also a great deal of overstatement. Here is the line between them, drawn carefully.

A list to take with you. Most of these have never been asked of the person answering, and the answers sort programmes faster than any brochure.

One of the best-supported behavioural treatments in addiction medicine is barely available in America, for reasons that have nothing to do with whether it works.

One of the largest public health studies ever run found a dose-response relationship between childhood adversity and later addiction. Here is what it does and does not mean.