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Despite misconceptions, mental-health conditions affect people of all ages and socio-economic backgrounds, and many recover. By Joy DiazJanuary 2, 2019 11:19 amHealth & Science Recently, and [...]

If you’re abusing alcohol and have decided it’s time to stop, here are some tactics that helped me to get and stay sober. You don’t have to undertake this daunting task alone. Accepting I [...]

In 2016, news reports warned the public of an opioid epidemic gripping the nation. But Madeline Vaughn, then a lead clinical intake coordinator at the Houston-based addiction treatment [...]

Julia Naftulin Jan. 14, 2019, 11:34 AM Eating disorders, including bulimia and anorexia, affect 30 million people in the United States, according to the National Eating Disorders Association [...]

Suburbs Aurora Beacon-News Aurora News Kane County Coroner Rob Russell says the “Way Out” program will allow anyone suffering from substance abuse to walk into the lobby of a participating police [...]

The next 12 months might just redefine the way America thinks about and responds to the opioid epidemic that now claims more than 40,000 lives each year. The nation’s biggest drugmakers and [...]

In early recovery we may discover co-occurring mental health conditions, trauma, and exhaustion. We may even find ourselves engaging in compulsive behaviors in other areas, like gambling or sex. [...]

As we enter 2019, it is a good time to take stock of what NIDA accomplished over the past year. As always when I look back at the research being done by NIDA grantees and partners, I am amazed at [...]

In a Monday, Dec. 10, 2018, photo, Robel, an 18-year-old tech addict from California, leaves a barn after helping feed animals at the Rise Up Ranch outside rural Carnation, Wash. The ranch is a [...]

Yesterday, U.S. Surgeon General Vice Adm. Jerome M. Adams held a press conference issuing an advisory stressing the importance of protecting children from a lifetime of nicotine addiction and [...]