Author Joey McCollum shares how five simple words helped him break free from addiction and reclaim identity, purpose, ...

ROANOKE, VA – When people picture homelessness or addiction, certain images often come to mind. “What people see are the quote ‘street people.’ They don’t see what’s going on inside of R.A.M. House.

Much of the conversation around addiction swings between two worldviews. On one side is the belief that addiction is a brain ...

Are you curious about the world's most unusual habits? People can get hooked on things you might never even consider addictive. While some addictions are widely recognized, there are others that fly ...

One of the problems that appear in my addiction practice is the situation of patients with addiction who are also being given “legitimate” prescription medications such as stimulants, benzodiazepines, ...

Hepatitis C affects about 2.7 million Americans today. Injection drug abuse accounts for a large percentage of this population. Hepatitis C is a chronic infection that causes liver damage in many ...

Addiction is one of the most intensely studied conditions in modern medicine, yet even with high‑resolution brain scans and ...

Generative AI can surprisingly steer people toward an addiction of any kind, either by insidious deceit or via accidental triggering. In today’s column, I examine an important question about the ...

Working to overcome a history as one of the nation's hardest-hit communities for overdoses, Surry County is launching a comprehensive initiative to identify exactly where people struggling with ...

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and I share the experience of recovering from heroin addiction. Like me, he started the ...