We deal with a lot of inherently traumatic things in medicine every day. We see people die or get terrible injuries. We see people who have lost control of their lives. We convince ourselves that it ...

More than 21 million Americans suffer from alcohol or drug abuse. Every year some of those people lose their lives. According to the Centers for Disease Control, drug overdose deaths in the U.S rose ...

Despite hard-fought progress in recent years, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that drug overdose deaths in the U.S. are now at their highest level ever, soaring to ...

Here’s one more lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic: It appears safe to relax restrictions on methadone, the oldest and most stigmatized treatment drug for opioid addiction. Last spring, with the ...

A mass of addiction services helped decrease overdose deaths in Hamilton county to about 454 last year. That's the lowest rate since 2017, when the county saw a peak of 570 overdose deaths. A mass of ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - It’s something that hits close to home for many families across the state — addiction — and local experts say they are seeing a rise in those battling the disease. But beds aren’t ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people increasingly turned to technology for entertainment and information, a trend that raises concerns about an increase in technology addiction. According to the ...

We don’t understand the problems of addiction The seeming increase in reports from the press about alcohol and drug use and abuse is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, raising awareness of ...

Their stories are strikingly similar: Two young Minnesota men whose lives were upended by substance use. For years they both struggled with addiction, treatment and relapse before finding sobriety.

Like narcissism, addiction is an impairment. Substance abuse preys on one’s low self-esteem and some may be genetically predisposed. In 2008 the American Psychological Association described studies ...

America's Best Addiction Treatment Centers 2021 highlights the nation's top addiction treatment facilities based on peer recommendations, quality and accreditations relative to in-state competition.