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 ...

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 ...

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health, to discuss addiction as a brain disorder, treatments for ...

Learn about the Recovery Coach Academy in Swampscott, a free program helping community members struggling with addiction. Funded by opioid abatement settlement money.

A soon-to-be built addiction treatment center on the Hoag campus in Newport Beach is intended to offer more support for those ...

The governor’s office said future of behavioral healthcare in Ohio is taking a significant step forward Wednesday as the Ohio ...

Every September, National Recovery Month is observed to increase awareness and understanding of mental health and substance use disorders and to celebrate the people who recover. Organized by the ...

It does not care who you are, what you look like, where you live or how much money you have in your back account. It does not let go easily, sometimes lying dormant for years before resurfacing with a ...

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 ...

A FILM challenging the stigma of addiction is being showcased at the Waterfront Cinema in Greenock next week. A special ...

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 ...

Joan Kennedy, the first wife of Sen. Ted Kennedy and the last survivor of Camelot, died at the age of 89 on Wednesday, her family announced in a statement.