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 best way to tackle Arkansas' substance use crisis is through education, partnership, vulnerability and action.

A new training and development resource is available to the state’s addiction and substance use prevention professionals. The New Jersey Prevention Network recently launched The Learning Center. The ...

Healthcare experts say one of the best ways to prevent addiction is to ease the stigma of it and discuss it more openly.(WTOP/Melissa Howell ) Admiral James ‘Sandy’ Winnefeld was one of the most ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn (WTNH) — If you have a teenager in your home, this is a fact that may shock you. Ninety percent of addiction begins in the teenage years, according to the Partnership for Drug-free ...

Nearly a decade into the opioid epidemic and in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, physicians in America seem to remain uncertain about how to identify and treat patients with addiction disorders, a ...

The drive to drink for someone with alcohol addiction often transforms from a pursuit of pleasure to a desperate need to escape the profound discomfort of withdrawal. New research has now identified a ...

MARK: A TREASURE COAST COUPLE STARTED A SCHOLARSHIP IN THEIR SON’S NAME. AND THIS WEEK, THAT COUPLE IS PREPARING TO AWARD MORE SCHOLARSHIPS IN MEMORY OF THEIR LATE SON WHO LOST HIS BATTLE WITH ...

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New research with mice has provided some fascinating insight into how addictive drugs hijack reward signals and influence neural processes associated with learning and memory. The research, published ...