Joshua Kaufman, MD, medical director of Behavioral Health and Medical Integration at Capital District Physicians' Health Plan, discusses the bidirectional relationship between schizophrenia and ...

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and First Lady Anna Stein announced the launch of Unshame NC, a public campaign to reduce the stigma around substance use disorders.The ...

In 2003, Wendy Dossett chaired an international symposium at a UK university. “I don’t remember chairing it. I know that I did, but I don’t remember anything that happened,” she says. At the time, she ...

It is tempting to think that people in the medical community, and especially physicians, are immune from bias and stigma. They are highly educated and well trained, and we might suspect that they ...

A new national study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, with colleagues at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, University of Chicago, National Opinion Research ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Addiction Policy Forum (APF), in collaboration with Governor DeWine's RecoveryOhio initiative, the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction ...

This article was originally published by Dome in its May/June 2024 issue. As a child growing up in Nigeria, Johns Hopkins physician Seun Falade-Nwulia felt distressed by the plight of female children ...

Addiction and HIV fuel one another in a global syndemic, but innovative programs, from Portugal’s reforms to Australia’s NSPs, show that integrated, stigma-free care can halt the cycle and save lives.

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 ...