Becky Bernhardt vividly remembers bawling on the phone years ago as she spoke with her son, who was struggling with homelessness and addiction. On Wednesday evening, she stood in front of a room full ...

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. Not long ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s history of heroin addiction alone would likely have disqualified him from ...

A common saying at our treatment center is that we all know a loved one, either a friend or family member, who struggles with addiction. Provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

It's time for America to end its black-and-white thinking about addiction and recovery, according to Johns Hopkins professor Hanna Pickard. Traditional approaches in the U.S.—framing addiction as ...

Every day, drug and alcohol addiction shatters families, destabilizes neighborhoods, derails careers, and steals the lives of countless Americans. This National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery ...

My previous posts have focused on recognizing and preventing excessive substance use, with an emphasis on providing the latest information about my special interest – cannabis (see 20 Questions to ...