A new facility in Sterling Heights is offering people struggling with addiction a different path to recovery – one that leads ...

Addiction is an umbrella term that reflects qualities of substance use disorder, characterized by an inability to stop using a substance despite harmful consequences. However, addiction is not a ...

Addiction resources go unused if people aren’t willing to talk about substance use in the first place. A local nonprofit, First Call, is helping Kansas Citians find available support. More Kansas ...

The new residence, exclusively for people ages 18 to 25 with drug and alcohol addictions, reflects increasing recognition that treatment of that age group — the most vulnerable to substance abuse — ...

AI-driven relapse predictions could be a tool in the fight against opioid addiction. Find out how researchers used smartphone data to forecast potential drug relapses.

North Carolina's first lady wants to remove the stigma and increase awareness of substance abuse disorder as a treatable medical condition, and encourage more people to seek that treatment for opioid ...

It wasn’t until Heather Lococo’s daughter was born with cocaine in her system that she knew she had to receive treatment. Losing her kids to foster care was the turning point for her. She started 29 ...

In 2023, 48.5 million people ages 12 or older in the U.S. contended with a substance use disorder or disorders -- for almost 29 million, it was an alcohol use disorder (AUD) and around 27 million ...

New research suggests that a popular group of medications used for diabetes and weight loss may also help treat alcohol and drug addiction. These drugs are called GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs), ...

GLP-1 drugs, originally developed for diabetes and obesity, may also curb addictive behaviors by acting on reward circuits in ...