I’d been sober seven months by then. As a recovering alcoholic, I knew how important it was that I made amends to the people I had harmed when I was drinking. God knows, there was a long list of [...]

The case for family therapy during recovery is a strong one, based on decades of research into how the intervention improves drug and alcohol treatment outcomes. As a clinician in the field, I’ve [...]

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year. It is an American tradition where families put their differences aside and draw close to each other to enjoy a wonderful meal and give thanks [...]

“Recovery is about living more in truth than in lies… it’s about facing reality and growing up.”  – Pia Mellody   Over 2,500 years ago, in Athens Greece, playwrights like Sophocles [...]

Drug use can have a wide range of short- and long-term, direct and indirect effects. These effects often depend on the specific drug or drugs used, how they are taken, how much is taken, the [...]

July 16, 2019 Disparities in access to quality treatment play a role in every aspect of health care and health outcomes, and the opioid crisis is no different. While whites and men continue to [...]

October 17, 2019  National Institute on Drug Abuse Smokers stand a 30-40 percent higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes—a disease in which the body loses the ability to produce or use insulin, [...]

“We see this not only as a template for Oregon but for the rest of the country and the world.” By Jon Walker; illustrated by Hunter French Oct 7 2019, 6:49am Why not Oregon? That’s [...]

Fortnite may be a free video game, but it’s already earned $1 billion this year, as well as a cult following. USA TODAY Roughly a quarter of a billion mostly obsessed gamers are battling it [...]

Sitting cross-legged on a blanket in his Soho apartment, Barrett Pall inhaled toad-venom smoke through a glass stem pipe. Thirty seconds later, he was crying. “I was crying really hard, yelling [...]