The nonpartisan Office of the Legislative Auditor found that the Behavioral Health Administration hadn't fixed problems ...

The cost of giving a loved one a lift to Gatwick has increased from £7 to £10, making it the most expensive airport drop-off ...

Much of the conversation around addiction swings between two worldviews. On one side is the belief that addiction is a brain ...

The experiences of one doctor in Louisiana reveal the tensions around trying to get people to engage in addiction treatment, ...

Like drug addiction, greed hijacks the brain's reward system. In healthcare, this pathological pursuit of profit has life-or-death consequences.

Seattle and San Francisco scale back harm reduction policies distributing drug supplies, signaling a shift in how West Coast ...

New medications are in the pipeline that could help people win their battles against addictive substances, including opioids ...

Decades of research show syringe programs are extremely effective at preventing infectious disease among intravenous drug ...

Aversion therapy (AT) is a behavioral therapy that involves repeatedly pairing an undesirable behavior with an unpleasant experience with the goal of discouraging the undesirable behavior. Other names ...

When I entered rehab at 23, I learned that trauma was a thread woven into most addiction stories. Many people in my program described horrific neglect or maltreatment, including sexual abuse, they had ...