Speaking from personal experience with heroin addiction, the HHS secretary explained how fee-for-service payment models ...

A desire to help others and break the chain of addiction have helped nurse Lori Jean Shinkle work with people at their lowest point. “As a kid I was very sickly, and the nurses always ...

Scientists are learning that GLP-1s may be an effective weight-loss medication for so many people because, in part, they ...

Data reported in July 2025 by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health via the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services ...

CBS News California Investigates obtained data from the LAFD that show 24,503 of the 25,461 patients who received naloxone ...

What Is It Like To Be an Addict? Understanding Substance Abuse, by Owen Flanagan, Oxford University Press, 320 pages, $24.99 Addiction is a problem that defenders of liberty need to face, for if ...

Millions of people struggle with addiction every day. But some people struggle in silence because these mental defenses keep them from accepting the truth. Living a life with addiction is like living ...

Addiction can be a loaded term. The word originated in the 16th century to denote an abnormal attachment, typically to alcohol, and was derived from the Latin term for legally binding someone into a ...

“While there has been this alarming number of overdoses in the Wichita area recently, we need to step back and look at the ...

When AI models were given disphoric stimuli and asked about outlook for the future, the response was "grim." The smarter the ...

The hallmarks of gambling addictions are showing up among some people who bet on prediction markets, and clinicians are ...