Residents are celebrating the opening of the Milton Jefferson Recovery Center with a special ribbon cutting ceremony ...

Addiction is a chronic medical condition. Like diabetes or high blood pressure, it can be controlled, but not cured. This does not mean that we ought to take a fatalistic view of alcohol and other ...

AI-driven relapse predictions could be a tool in the fight against opioid addiction. Find out how researchers used smartphone data to forecast potential drug relapses.

In the recovery process, deciding to enter treatment is perhaps the most important step and with more time spent in recovery, client can begin to restore pieces of their life. One of those pieces is ...

Background: The self-help groups Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) are very well established. AA and NA employ a 12-step program and are found in most large cities around the ...

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 ...

People addicted to drugs or alcohol are stigmatized in our society, which can impede their recovery. We cannot readily understand how they are thinking and why they are making the unhealthy choices ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The opioid crisis has been a quiet, deadly presence in America for a quarter-century ...