Before she earned the title of the nation’s youngest certified prevention specialist, one idea transformed this Marshall ...

The conversation around addiction has evolved dramatically over recent decades, with medical and scientific communities now firmly classifying it as a chronic brain disorder rather than a moral ...

The conversation about addiction within Black families requires a fundamental shift toward understanding it as a medical condition rather than a moral failing. This perspective change proves crucial ...

For years, addiction was seen as a matter of personal failure—a bad habit or a lack of discipline. People believed those who struggled with substance abuse could stop if they simply wanted to. But ...

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, experts discuss behavioral health services, stigma reduction, and the 4 dimensions of ...

I have an advantage, or maybe a disadvantage, compared with some scientists and psychologists who work on addiction. I was ...

Americans may not say it aloud, but drug addiction has long been considered a moral failing. "Just say no," as Nancy Reagan famously declared during the crack-cocaine epidemic of the 80s. That ...

Are addiction and alcoholism diseases? After all this time, that question still divides people. I found myself thinking a lot about it this week in the wake of the trial of Michael Ryan Cody. Cody was ...

Drug addiction, a disease that takes hundreds of lives in Palm Beach County every year, is often misunderstood and mistreated. That's slowly changing, but experts say much is yet to be done. Private ...

PROVIDENCE — Brown University will receive $12.3 million in federal funding over the next five years to further research the unique connections between addiction and substance use and chronic disease ...