End the Stigma

If there’s one thing we’re sure about when it comes to addiction – of all types – it’s that we have a tendency to resort to our addictive substance when we’re feeling more emotional than we’re comfortable with. It’s just a fact of the way addiction works that we go to it in times of [...]

Slate asks: Exercise and drug use: What do they have in common? There’s another, slightly more disturbing theory for why exercise helps stave off relapse—that working out helps people (and rats) resist drugs because of its similarity to those drugs. Have you ever felt irritable after skipping a yoga class or two? Or a little depressed [...]