Why do addicts relapse?
ideastream: Experts say somewhere between 50 and 90 percent of alcoholics and drug addicts relapse. Barry Hoffer, adjunct professor in the School of Medicine, said addiction isn’t something treated and cured; it needs to be managed. “You have to think of addiction the way you would think of something like asthma or diabetes or hypertension,” he said.

Medicine's Barry Hoffer says addictions must be managed
SCIENCE + TECH |
September 26, 2012
STORY BY: EDITORIAL STAFF
STORY BY: EDITORIAL STAFF