Grief is a common human experience, affecting people of all ages. Those recovering from substance use disorder (SUD) often face additional challenges due to losses experienced during or as a result of ...

According to the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs, children need simple ways to understand substance use disorder and need to hear they are safe, loved, and not to blame.

You're reading Part 5 of The War on Recovery, a yearlong investigation into how the U.S. denies lifesaving medications to people with opioid addiction. Catch up on ...

Author Joey McCollum shares how five simple words helped him break free from addiction and reclaim identity, purpose, ...

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 ...

Are cookies and chips the new cigarettes? And soda, breakfast cereals and ice cream the new opioids? In his new book, “Diet, Drugs, and Dopamine: The New Science of Achieving a Healthy Weight” ...

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. Not long ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s history of heroin addiction alone would likely have disqualified him from ...

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 ...

LEBANON, Ohio — Spread across the floor at JBM Packaging's warehouse in Lebanon, workers carefully assemble shipments and orders. "JBM is definitely like a family, it's like a big family," said ...

For many veterans, recovery from mental health challenges, substance use, trauma or major life transitions does not begin ...