Addiction involves loss of control over use of a substance, often in the presence of physiological and psychological dependence on a substance and compulsion to continue seeking and using the ...

More information: Elizabeth A. Bowen, To change what we cannot accept: acknowledging and addressing the impact of climate change on addiction recovery capital, Addiction Research & Theory (2023).

ON THE DRIVER’S LICENSE HAVE BEEN DROPPED. THE FORMER OWNER OF SOME ADDICTION RECOVERY CLINICS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND ALSO IN VERMONT, PLANS TO PLEAD GUILTY TO A CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT ...

"So, this disaster adds to the trauma that could lead somebody recovering back to addiction. You lose connection with clients in recovery in these type of disaster situations, which is why it was ...

Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy ... He prescribes these medications to his patients in recovery to treat their obesity or diabetes, and says ...

Addiction Recovery Care, a Louisa-based addiction treatment services provider with more than 30 locations across 22 counties, is temporarily closing four of its facilities in the wake of possible ...

The U.S. surgeon general’s call for mandatory, tobacco-style warnings on social media to raise awareness about its association with “significant mental health harms” is an important ...

These and other indicators demonstrate how porn can become not only problematic, but also habit forming - though calling it an "addiction" is "an area of substantial, protracted controversy and ...

One of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s key advisers and the driving force behind the province’s recovery-focused addiction treatment policy is leaving the job. In a social media post Tuesday ...

Prior to his death, Payne had struggled with addiction, sharing that he was in rehab for 100 days in 2023. Payne died after he fell from the third floor of a hotel around 5 p.m. local time.

Marshall Smith engineered the shift emphasis in Alberta's addiction system away from harm reduction and safe consumption sites, and toward a network of several "recovery communities." As the ...