If addiction is the opposite of human connection, as human connections increase, addiction should drop. Unfortunately for his hypothesis, only 6% of ex-smokers attribute their success to those social ...

Addiction is a state of severe physical and psychological dependence on certain substances. People living with addiction may have brain differences and often require treatment, but stigma can prevent ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — September is National Recovery Month, and it couldn’t come at a better time that the Associate Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Addiction Research, Erin Calipari, is ...

Tevis Simon grew up in West Baltimore back in the 1980s, a neighborhood that lacked attention from the city and investment from the government. From day to day, she was never sure what version of her ...

As drug overdose deaths have risen sharply in recent years, a pattern has emerged: Reflecting the historic losses felt by inner city families, increasingly families in the suburbs are enduring a wave ...

Despite the high prevalence of addiction and substance use disorders in the United States, the number of physicians adopting evidence-based substance use disorder interventions in their clinical ...

The educational nonprofit behind Sesame Street has created videos and stories for caregivers or therapists to share with kids 6 and under, to help... Muppets from Sesame Workshop help explain opioid ...