A systematic review and Delphi study creates a new consensus statement on the meaning and measurement of relapse in ...

I never get over the weirdness of introducing myself to a group of people at a 12-step meeting. “Hi, I’m T and I’m an addict,” is how I have started a lot of conversations. Other people in recovery ...

When I was first diagnosed with diabetes, my A1C was 11.7. That got my attention. Over the next few years, I learned that health isn’t something you fix once. It’s something you manage for life.

This transcript has been edited for clarity. John Kane, MD: I am Dr John Kane. I am a professor of psychiatry at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell in Hempstead, New ...

When my daughter relapsed after six years of sobriety, it took her less than five months to lose everything she had worked so hard for: her job, her savings, her good credit rating, and—most ...

A new study suggests that smokers who take up vaping may "relapse" to cigarettes. But this is more a problem of definitions than evidence that e-cigarettes don't promote smoking cessation. Do ...

Flavor Flav isn’t letting a relapse define his journey. The rap veteran is making it clear that he’s fully recommitted to sobriety and plans to keep it that way. Speaking at the 2025 Black Music ...

Due to the innate complexity of addiction, its definition has been difficult to establish, and public understanding is skewed. Addiction has more recently been compared to chronic diseases. This ...