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Do You Think a Loved One Might be Addicted? Follow the Money to Find Out The year 2020 had the dubious distinction of having the highest number of fatal...
September has been declared National Recovery Month. Public attention is drawn toward the issue of those who are battling substance use disorders. Various forms of treatment, along with the...
Steelers’ QB Ben Roethlisberger Credits His Faith for Helping in His Recovery from Alcohol, Porn Addiction Ben Roethlisberger is about to return to the playing field after missing 14...
In the years between the late teens and the early twenties, young people are known for experimenting with alcohol use. As they move into their mid-twenties and beyond, the...
The West Virginia University Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (RNI) and WVU Medicine have announced that they are launching a new clinical trial. The program, which is the first of its...
Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researchers have found that the recurring cycle that occurs in yo-yo dieting (a pattern where a person overeats followed by a time where...
We like to think that people who work in these types of helping professions are somehow immune from substance abuse, when they may be more at risk than the...
A new study, recently published in the American Journal of Public Health, has found that the vast majority of adult patients who were prescribed opioids used them for medicinal...
New Jersey’s Health Commissioner has recently authorized paramedics to administer buprenorphine to patients shortly after reviving them from an opioid overdose while out on calls. The paramedics would offer...
With so much attention being given to the current opioid crisis, it has been easy to forget that alcohol is still responsible for many deaths. In fact, it kills...