A huge problem in our country is that most of the people whom we trust to provide addiction treatment are poorly qualified or unqualified. The biggest group of these are people without any ...

The Federal Medical Center in Lexington has a fairly simple purpose — it’s a facility used to treat seriously ill people who are imprisoned by the federal government. Its intended use when it opened ...

Addiction medicine offers a useful framework. Many people use substances without developing addiction. The difference often ...

Many Utahns have experienced addiction or felt its affects in their immediate family. Few things are more difficult and less understood. But there are some key things we should all know about ...

Addiction is a terrible disease that affects almost 50 million people in the U.S. — as well as their family members, friends and other loved ones. When we talk about addiction, alcohol and drugs may ...

Learn to Cope, a peer-led support network for families dealing with addiction and recovery, holds in-person meetings from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesday of every month in the ...

(WHTM) — On the last day of national recovery, the administrator of the Dauphin County Department of Drug and Alcohol Services joined Hot Topic Tuesday to talk about resources in the community.

As rates of fentanyl overdoses increase across the country, local addiction recovery providers find ways to start and succeed in substance recovery. Opioid-involved drug overdoses increased by 3% in ...

Richardson native and former SMU track athlete Dave Kniffen Jr. started his career with a boutique law firm but soon decided he didn’t want to spend his life practicing tax law. He went looking for a ...

Dr. Ellen Unterwald in one of the labs at the Center for Substance Abuse Research at Temple Medical School in Philadelphia, Pa. on Friday, June 29, 2018. (Jessica Griffin/Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS) Dr ...