Ten16 Recovery Network is helping businesses become Recovery Friendly Workplaces through an initiative that educates employers to support employees in recovery from substance use disorder while ...

North Carolina's first lady wants to remove the stigma and increase awareness of substance abuse disorder as a treatable medical condition, and encourage more people to seek that treatment for opioid ...

Two years ago, Tyler Yates lost his best friend to an overdose. At the urging of another person in the recovery community, Yates said his best friend stopped taking buprenorphine — a medication used ...

Almost 300 community members participated in PEER Services’ 10th annual Step Up for Recovery event Sunday. The event is a fundraiser for PEER Services, a nonprofit that provides community-based ...

A proposed bill in California seeks to include Narcan training in CPR certification programs to combat opioid overdoses and ...

Based on the most recent statistics from the 2024 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 48.4 million Americans (16.8%) aged 12 and older were diagnosed with a substance use disorder (SUD) in the ...

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In a typical North Carolina middle or high school classroom of 25 students, roughly two meet the criteria for substance use ...

Substance use disorder during and after pregnancy has become a major public health problem, escalating in tandem with America ...

Substance use and substance use disorder differ by the frequency of use and the effect on a person’s life. Substance use disorder is a mental health condition. Substance use refers to using both legal ...