Language matters, especially when it comes time to mental health and addiction. Fortunately, how we view mental health and addiction has improved dramatically over the past few decades, and even in ...

Based on the most recent statistics from the 2024 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 48.4 million Americans (16.8%) aged 12 and older were diagnosed with a substance use disorder (SUD) in the ...

Drug addiction has been one of America’s growing public health concerns for decades. Despite the development of effective treatments and support resources, few people who are suffering from a ...

It’s likely you or someone close to you has been affected by addiction. In fact, one in seven Americans aged 12 or older reports experiencing a substance use disorder, according to the Centers for ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Last year, more than 107,000 people died from a drug ...

The Princess of Wales has urged an end to the "stigma" surrounding addiction, calling for society to show "compassion and love" to those dependent on drugs, alcohol, or gambling. Marking Addiction ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Marianne is a Boston resident who has been in recovery for ...

As many of you know, after an almost 10-year battle with addiction, my son Brian lost his life on Oct. 20, 2011. More tragically, it was not just addiction that took my son’s life. It was also the ...

William Stoehr is a prominent artist whose sister died of an overdose. Dr. Nora Volkow is the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health. Together, the ...

We deal with a lot of inherently traumatic things in medicine every day. We see people die or get terrible injuries. We see people who have lost control of their lives. We convince ourselves that it ...