The New Year presents an opportunity for those seeking to overcome addiction, according to the CEO of Groups Recover Together ...

An initiative through the state has free resources that are used to help spread the love during the holiday season.

Recovery from addiction or mental health challenges is often portrayed as a deeply personal journey, but in reality, it is ...

If I don’t change, my life will not get better.” Those were my son Daniel’s words—an aha moment of clarity, the springboard ...

Maia Szalavitz is the author, most recently, of "Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction." When I kicked cocaine and heroin in 1988, I was told that there was ...

Substance use disorders can affect many aspects of a person’s life. With this in mind, our addiction medicine and recovery experts aim to treat the individual as a whole. By providing behavioral ...

Recovery from substance use does not end when formal treatment is complete. For many individuals, the transition back into ...

My previous posts have focused on recognizing and preventing excessive substance use, with an emphasis on providing the latest information about my special interest – cannabis (see 20 Questions to ...

All In Solutions Counseling Center emphasizes the importance of sober living housing as a vital component in the continuum of addiction recovery care. The Joint Commission-accredited treatment center ...

It's time for America to end its black-and-white thinking about addiction and recovery, according to Johns Hopkins professor Hanna Pickard. Traditional approaches in the U.S.—framing addiction as ...

As I wrote in last month’s post, loss is an unavoidable part of life. Over time, everyone experiences a range of significant losses, and as painful as it often is, the grieving process is a necessary ...

An addiction is a chronic dysfunction of the brain system that involves reward, motivation, and memory. It’s about the way your body craves a substance or behavior, especially if it causes a ...