About three years ago, I was attending a national conference on public health (American Public Health Association) and presenting my posters on the relationship between drug use and violence, and ...
Carl Hart, a neuroscientist at Columbia University, writes about the choices addicts make in his new book, High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery that Challenges Everything You Know ...
Addiction is a widespread issue that affects millions of people around the world. In fact, according to the World Health Organization, over 39.5 million people globally suffer from substance use ...
Katelyn Fullbright on the day she graduated from Women in Recovery.Credit...Barrett Emke for The New York Times Supported by By Nicholas Kristof Photographs by Barrett Emke Mr. Kristof is an Opinion ...
Not all recoveries look the same. While addiction might feel universal in its pain and disruption, the way it lives in a woman’s body, the way it roots itself in her memories, and the way it loosens ...
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 ...
A Portland-based addiction recovery nonprofit will open its first community recovery center for young adults in Vancouver next month. 4D Recovery is a nonprofit organization whose vision is to create ...