Jenna Harrison, a DeWitt resident, is six years sober from being addicted to drugs. She was once in a dark place, but now she ...

Policies that gave addicts clean needles and places to use drugs were intended to reduce harm. They created a “zombie ...

After having his first drink aged 12, Alasdair Gill knew his relationship with alcohol was different to that of his peers. “School was not my place,” he says, sitting in his London home, wearing a ...

A patient of mine, a veteran who had tried to quit smoking for over a decade, told me that after he started a GLP-1 drug for his diabetes, he lost interest in cigarettes. He didn't use a patch. He ...

This short chapter summarizes some of the key discussions concerning how drug abuse is viewed in the society and the implications of those views. These discussions occurred throughout the committee's ...

Dependence on alcohol and drugs among nurses hovers around 10% (1), a statistic which falls in line with the general population. There are about four million nurses (2) in America, four times the ...

Addiction science is at an impasse. Rates of addiction remain high. Translational results from decades of research conducted within the dominant brain disease paradigm are shockingly meager. Meanwhile ...

This publication has been produced to meet accepted Accessibility standards and contains various accessibility features including concise image descriptions, a table of contents, a page list to ...

Mary started drinking regularly in the early nineties, when she was thirteen. Her father had recently married a Danish woman and moved the family to Denmark, which has one of the highest teen-drinking ...

Lev’s reporting has explored Americans’ deadly hostility to addiction medications, subpar treatment offered in jails and prisons, shifts in the illicit drug supply and consumption behavior, ...