If you're someone or know someone recovering from addiction, you've likely seen a relapse. The rug gets pulled out from under you, the other shoe drops, and old feelings of worry and fear come ...

Opioid addiction, or opioid use disorder (OUD), is a major global health issue, and recovery from OUD is marked with high ...

Drug addiction is a chronic, often relapsing disorder that affects millions of people worldwide. Despite successful treatment, many individuals struggle to maintain sobriety and may relapse.

A young man in recovery from addiction once gave me his perspective on the painful consequences of relapse: “It’s not the relapse that troubles me,” he said. “It’s the self-beating that comes ...

The number of quit attempts represent adjusted, estimated marginal means for each substance, averaged across levels of substance use disorder severity. Relapse is common when someone is trying to quit ...

Recovery from bulimia nervosa isn’t always a straight path. It’s common to experience lapses or relapses along the way. These setbacks don’t mean failure — they’re opportunities to learn and ...

Launched in 2017, Fortis is one of a handful of public recovery high schools in the country. Every semester, it enrolls between 20 to 35 Houston-area students who are recovering from addiction to any ...

When the pain of drug and alcohol addiction is finally too much, residents of Richland County can turn to Catalyst Life Services as many times as it takes. The average sober person has about seven ...

Travis Friese is running on a team organized by Odyssey House, a residential treatment program. By Jennie Coughlin His first time in rehab, Travis Friese thought he could just learn to use drugs less ...