The pain in Gary Emes’ hip was excruciating, but the fear of relapsing into addiction was stronger. He suffered for five years before he finally decided to pursue joint replacement surgery. “The hip ...

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

In modern addiction and mental health treatment approaches, empathy is increasingly regarded as a core clinical skill.

The main goal when determining the level of care is to match the intensity of the treatment to the severity of the addiction.

New research shows yoga helps individuals in rehab for opioid addiction recover more quickly and with decreased cravings, ...

DETROIT (WXYZ) — For many people, the holidays represent the most wonderful time of the year. But for those recovering from substance abuse, this season can be the ...

Due to the innate complexity of addiction, its definition has been difficult to establish, and public understanding is skewed. Addiction has more recently been compared to chronic diseases. This ...

Drug addiction, a disease that takes hundreds of lives in Palm Beach County every year, is often misunderstood and mistreated. That's slowly changing, but experts say much is yet to be done. Private ...

Since the pandemic in the early 2020s, people have been dealing with collective stressors. This has included social isolation, disrupted personal and work routines, economic instability, and ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A University at Buffalo neuroscientist whose focus is the brain’s reward system and its role in addiction is helping to illuminate how exercise can aid the brain in addiction recovery.

Eminem is celebrating his 16th year of sobriety since overcoming an addiction to alcohol and drugs during the late ’00s. On Sunday (April 21), the 51-year-old took to Instagram to acknowledge the ...

Andrew Allison attends church, goes to work as a chef and offers a helping hand to his neighbors any chance he can get. Allison, a 47-year-old ex-Marine living in Johnstown, has been sober for one ...