For more than a half century, Project Turnabout has helped those struggling with drug and alcohol addiction in southwest Minnesota. In recent years, the Granite Falls-based provider has been on the ...

Smita Das, MD, PhD, MPH, often hears the same myth: You can't get hooked on pot. And the misconception has become more widespread as a growing number of states legalize marijuana. Around half now ...

People in the United States are in the midst of an ongoing opioid epidemic and a wave of mental health problems. So funding and staff cuts to a federal agency that supports mental health care, suicide ...

Huml Health, a Bentonville-based health care technology startup, will soon offer technology to help people recover from drug ...

When you read about addiction statistics in our community, our country and around the world, you may think, “well, that’s a lot of people who made pretty bad decisions.” That is, if you’re one of the ...

I recently had a family, minus the mother, come to see me. They were greatly concerned, and rightfully so that Mom was “using”. Mom is indeed addicted to opiates and other narcotics that have kept her ...

I was in the bath trying to get warm, surrounded by needles, screaming to God for help. I thought, “I’m going to be dead soon”. This chapter of my life had begun when I was 15. That was when I met an ...

Kevin Alter created "The Addict's Diary" so that people would have a place online to share their failures, successes, and lessons they have learned throughout their path to recovery from addiction.

We need a new paradigm for addiction that puts psychology first and recognizes its heterogeneity. Only then will we see that ...

There is a black market for buprenorphin, an approved drug for opioid addiction. This is a Kaiser Health News story. Months in prison didn’t rid Daryl of his addiction to opioids. “Before I left the ...