A multidisciplinary team led by a University at Buffalo social work researcher has developed and tested a new assessment tool that has the potential to help people recover from alcohol and drug ...

Digital tools are playing an increasingly prominent role in helping individuals with addiction recovery and advancing care. Northwest Arkansas company Sober Sidekick produced a smartphone app that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner testifies before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. The disease of addiction, also known as substance use disorder, is a crisis that touches families in every community and neighborhood in our Nation. 48.4 million ...

It's time for America to end its black-and-white thinking about addiction and recovery, according to Johns Hopkins professor Hanna Pickard. Traditional approaches in the U.S.—framing addiction as ...

Anyone who has tried to change a habit or a deeply ingrained way of viewing life knows how difficult this can be. We can all make temporary changes, but we soon slide back into old habits unless we ...

An examination of substance abuse & the journeys of several who overcame their addiction. Addiction impacts people across all ages and groups, and does not discriminate. And mental health and ...