The Camden County Board of Commissioners and the Addiction Awareness Task Force (AATF) launched the Break the Stigma campaign to change the conversation around addiction and recovery. This initiative ...

GLP-1 receptor agonists have shown promise as treatment for addiction, but there are still several hurdles affecting their ...

At one time in my active addiction, I was so desperate to escape the cycle of getting and using and finding ways and means to get more, I considered enrolling in a methadone program in Knoxville. I ...

Xianna MouaYang, Yeng Moua and Mai Moua are a family — one with a story of resilience, using the past to change the futures of those around them. Each of them has battled substance use disorder, which ...

Learn about the Recovery Coach Academy in Swampscott, a free program helping community members struggling with addiction. Funded by opioid abatement settlement money.

Families learn to overcome fear and find strength as they talk openly about loving someone who's struggling with addiction or ...

While there are numerous reasons for the existing gap between addiction and treatment, one of the largest factors is stigma, according to recent proprietary research from Recovery Brands, an addiction ...

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 ...

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 ...

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health, to discuss addiction as a brain disorder, treatments for ...

The Brick has been running a week of action named Love Wins in the run-up to World Homelessness Day in a bid to tackle the stigma around homelessness. The campaign is about raising awareness – not ...

The 16-year-old seeks to change the conversation around addiction. After Toni Cornell's father, Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell, died in 2017, she took on a new mission: to educate ...