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 ...

Gov. Mikie Sherrill said she will build on the harm reduction programs established by her predecessor, strategies that ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The Franklin County Coroner’s Office is expanding on its mission to prevent overdose deaths by partnering with several local groups for an art gallery breaking the sigma around ...

The Camden County Board of Commissioners and the Addiction Awareness Task Force (AATF) launched the Break the Stigma campaign to change the conversation around addiction and recovery. This initiative ...

The "Into Light" exhibit is sketching a new path toward transforming the conversation around addiction — one portrait and ...

Some of the most recently available data brings welcome news in the nationwide fight against the opioid epidemic. After many months of increasing overdose deaths in the wake of the Covid pandemic – a ...

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 ...

GUILDERLAND, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Runners and walkers alike took to the starting line on Saturday for the annual Summer Smith 5K Addiction Awareness Memorial Run. The race, which marked its ninth year, ...

Mental health experts are nearly unanimous in endorsing the disease model of addiction. Alcoholism (now alcohol use disorder) was declared a disease in 1956 by the American Medical Association, and ...

The newly signed fiscal year 2026 defense appropriations package creates federal funding for gambling addiction research in both active and veteran military members.

Drugs originally designed to treat diabetes and obesity are reshaping medicine in unforeseen ways. Their impact on public health is really unprecedented in modern times, perhaps only upstaged by ...

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 ...