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 ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro headed a roundtable discussion about ways to combat substance use disorder, the opioid crisis and related ...

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 ...

When you think of tools for studying substance use and addiction, a social media site like Reddit, TikTok or YouTube probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. Yet the stories shared on social ...

When you read about addiction statistics in our community, our country and around the world, you may think, “well, that’s a lot of people who made pretty bad decisions.” That is, if you’re one of the ...

The Princess of Wales has urged an end to the "stigma" surrounding addiction, calling for society to show "compassion and love" to those dependent on drugs, alcohol, or gambling. Marking 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 ...

"Everybody knows someone impacted by addiction, whether it be a family member, friend, neighbor, or co-worker, and it is time we end the silence, stop the judgment and shame, and bring addiction out ...

Despite the growing prevalence of addiction among seniors, many cases go undetected even in health care settings where older ...

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 ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro headed a roundtable discussion about ways to combat substance use disorder, the opioid crisis and related ...