Are you facing a court order that feels overwhelming or confusing? Do you worry about what this means for your job or future? It’s natural to feel stressed in these moments, but it also shows your ...

Nick Padlo’s addiction to alcohol and drugs didn’t happen overnight. “I was using them as a tool to cope with depression and anxiety,” says the recovered addict and founder of Sophros Recovery in ...

The complexities of addiction have stumped scientists for decades. Today, with 48 million Americans over the age of 12 suffering from a substance use disorder, and alcohol and drugs combined resulting ...

"What it comes down to is we are serious about creating a culture that normalizes people showing up in whatever way feels comfortable for them to be able to fully participate," said Aric Jensen, vice ...

Mental health experts are nearly unanimous in endorsing the disease model of addiction. Alcoholism (now alcohol use disorder) was declared a disease in 1956 by the American Medical Association, and ...

A patient of mine, a veteran who had tried to quit smoking for over a decade, told me that after he started a GLP-1 drug for his diabetes, he lost interest in cigarettes. He didn’t use a patch. He ...