You may have done some terrible things while under the influence of alcoholism or addiction, and you may be ashamed of what you have become; but at the core, you are not a bad person you are a sick person, and the things you may have done do not reflect who you are and what you believe.

Barak Obama has admitted to using drugs. 

Half of all Americans have admitted to using drugs.

For the people, of the people.

A commonly taught technique to reduce the impact and intensity of cravings is to minimize your exposure to those triggers that provoke them. A recent study shows how hard this to do - showing that the brain sees things that we are not even consciously aware of, other than being conscious of wanting another hit...

So which drug is the most addictive? Is heroin worse than crack, or was meth the terrible winner?

Actually, the most addictive drug, as determined by a survey of addiction experts, was a legal one - in fact the only drug to get a score of 100 was nicotine. Check out the list and the addiction scores of commonly abused drugs.

• Cocaine addicted monkeys placed in larger and nicer cages use less cocaine.
• Cocaine addicted monkeys placed in smaller and less stimulating cages use more cocaine.

Since monkeys are a pretty good indicator of human behavior, maybe we shouldn't put people in small and sterile jail cells after we catch them using cocaine?