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U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams testifies on Capitol Hill on Nov. 15, 2017. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) When Surgeon General Jerome Adams issued an advisory calling for more people to carry [...]

Many have heard the time-worn expression, “relapse is the rule and not the exception.” Relapse is always lurking somewhere. It is only as close as the next drink or that next line of cocaine [...]

Writer and Philosopher George Santayana is attributed with one of the most famous insights about progress, change and retained experience. He stated, “Those who cannot remember the past are [...]

“I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.” ~ Walt Whitman As a clinician, I have always believed that at the heart of an addiction is a psychological [...]

The mechanisms of addiction have a very strong biologic and physiologic basis, in addition to the psychological and spiritual components. It makes perfect sense then that the right kinds of [...]

A new systematic review, now published in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry, found that people living in high-altitude areas of the United States, such as intermountain states, have [...]

Teens with mental health conditions are more likely to take prescription opioids on a long-term basis, according to recent research. Teenagers with any mental health problem are more prone to [...]

By Anna Gorman, Kaiser Health News A tax on the wealthy has significantly boosted mental health programs in California’s largest county, according to a new report. A 1% tax on Californians [...]

By Austin Frakt March 5, 2018 The opioid epidemic just keeps getting worse, presenting challenges discussed at length at a White House summit last week. But opioids are not America’s only [...]

Embargoed Until: Tuesday, March 6, 2018, 1:00 p.m. ET View larger infographic and text description Data from emergency departments (EDs) show that the U.S. opioid overdose epidemic continues to [...]