Many jails and prisons around the country don't provide medication treatment for opioid use disorder. Studies show that ...

Live from WYFF 4 studios, Chronicle: State of Addiction was a community event that featured law enforcement and addiction specialists answering viewer questions and discussing issues and solutions ...

While they have never met, the women share the same experience of seeing their children battling addiction and having to ...

One way to get that pleasure is to seek retaliation. Additional brain scan studies have shown that when people imagine ...

Fewer than 40% of Medicare beneficiaries with opioid-use disorders receive proper care, study finds In 2022, 52,000 Medicare beneficiaries experienced an opioid overdose, according to the Centers for ...

Despite the growing prevalence of addiction among seniors, many cases go undetected even in health care settings where older ...

MIAMI — When Susan Akin first started injecting a coveted weight-loss drug early this year, the chaos in her brain quieted. The relentless cravings subsided — only they’d never been for food. The ...

My life changed 20 years ago, when my friend and I were floating down the Rogue River in Oregon. Suddenly the motor fell off the boat, which tipped over. I slipped into the icy water. Some young ...

One of the dominant ways of thinking about addiction is as a disease. While there is evidence for this approach, it often ...