As opioid overdose deaths in the U.S. rose dramatically from 2014 to today, both Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Camden, New Jersey, cemented reputations as hotspots of the crisis. In Philadelphia, ...

States can follow Arkansas’ lead because protecting families, saving lives, and ending the opioid epidemic cannot wait.

Addiction often isn’t about chasing pleasure—it’s about escaping pain. Researchers at Scripps Research have discovered that a ...

Drug addiction, a disease that takes hundreds of lives in Palm Beach County every year, is often misunderstood and mistreated. That's slowly changing, but experts say much is yet to be done. Private ...

Scientists have identified a tiny brain circuit in the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (PVT) that keeps alcohol users ...

The Sanctuary at Sedona reports functional medicine enhances addiction recovery by addressing root causes and individual ...

This month is National Recovery Month, and it’s a good time to focus a spotlight on the realities of life for so many people in our community: those struggling from addiction. The face of addiction ...

Here in Buncombe County, socioeconomic disparities are determinants of future health. In 2023, the most concerning health issue to plague us is something we are all too familiar with: the effects of ...

The Palm Beach County medical examiner says 421 people died of opioid overdoses in 2022. I wonder if Jay was counted among them. His body was found in early 2023, but he actually died on Sept. 29 of ...

Addiction is a multifaceted problem. We could spend all day looking at variables that go into addiction and its treatment. Every clean and sober person has a different story as to how they got clean ...

Babygirl and Triangle of Sadness star Harris Dickinson makes his directorial debut with Urchin, a raw, humanising portrait of homelessness and the cycle of addiction, which he also wrote and cameos in ...

In Philadelphia, over 1,170 people died of opioid overdoses in 2022, the last year for which complete data is available. More than 300 more died just over the bridge in Camden County. Research ...