Despite what people may tell you, changing behavior is easy. It’s maintaining change that’s hard—creating new and sustained ways of thinking and behaving. As Mark Twain quipped, “Quitting [smoking] is ...

Humans are social beings, we thrive when we have meaningful social interactions and connections with other people. The impact of our relationships on our quality of life can be profound. Most of us ...

Maia Szalavitz is the author, most recently, of "Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction." When I kicked cocaine and heroin in 1988, I was told that there was ...

Addiction poisons the mind along with the body, making many addicts believe that long-term recovery is impossible. Thankfully, this is untrue. Medical professionals with the right expertise, training ...

My daughter lived through a drug overdose in April ["A raw sensitivity beneath the jokes," News, Aug. 12]. Afterward, she went to The New Direction in Walton, N.Y., a center for counseling and ...

The graying of America is being reflected in the nation’s drug crisis. Even as overdose deaths drop, millions of aging former drug users are living with long-term health challenges exacerbated by ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) --Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to open recovery high schools to help teens struggling with heroin addiction. Coumo said many teen addicts leave recovery and are offered drugs the ...