“Relapse is a part of recovery.” This idiom was recited time and again in the inpatient treatment center where I spent 30 days in January 2008. The other thing I heard a lot was “addiction [...]
ELSEVIER A new study in Biological Psychiatry provides updated estimates of the lifetime and 12-month prevalence of eating disorders Philadelphia, May 30, 2018 Biological Psychiatry has published [...]
CreditMonica Ramos When Julie Eldred tested positive for fentanyl in 2016, 11 days into her probation for a larceny charge, she was sent to jail. Such outcomes are typical in the American [...]
Purdue Pharma, the company that planted the seeds of the opioid epidemic through its aggressive marketing of OxyContin, has long claimed it was unaware of the powerful opioid painkiller’s growing [...]
As a parent or family member who has dealt with addiction in the family, or more specifically, if you have dealt with your child’s addiction, you might ask yourself, isn’t understanding my kid’s [...]
While some are choosing marijuana for their first time, a new survey revealed that a lot of teens have chosen to abstain from substance use. Young people are putting marijuana first. A new [...]
The New York Times Elizabeth and her baby at home in Rhode Island. CreditAlec Soth/Magnum, for The New York Times Children of theOpioid Epidemic In the midst of a national opioid crisis, mothers [...]
They’re not even illegal. Addictive drugs can have devastating effects on human life, but the worst of the lot are not the ones you might think. In fact, alcohol and tobacco are more [...]
According to government statistics, 21.5 million Americans suffer from a substance abuse disorder, alcoholism being the most common. As of 2014, 64,000 lost their lives to some type of overdose. [...]
(Reuters Health) – The surge in U.S. kids taking medication for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is having an unintended side effect, a new study suggests: more children and [...]
