My message to anyone struggling with addiction is that recovery is possible. I am living proof.

After having his first drink aged 12, Alasdair Gill knew his relationship with alcohol was different to that of his peers. “School was not my place,” he says, sitting in his London home, wearing a ...

Jenna Harrison, a DeWitt resident, is six years sober from being addicted to drugs. She was once in a dark place, but now she ...

Remarkable scientific progress over the past five decades has helped us develop knowledge of how drugs of abuse induce pleasure, reinforce use, and lead to the compulsive self-administration we call ...

For Adrienne Henry, executive director of the Day One Hope Center and counselor in training, helping others recover from ...

A patient of mine, a veteran who had tried to quit smoking for over a decade, told me that after he started a GLP-1 drug for his diabetes, he lost interest in cigarettes. He didn't use a patch. He ...

Lev’s reporting has explored Americans’ deadly hostility to addiction medications, subpar treatment offered in jails and prisons, shifts in the illicit drug supply and consumption behavior, ...

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. In late 2016, Steven Klein realized that he’d lost control over his drinking and stimulant use. He became sober ...

Washington state Democrats’ commitment to enabling drug addiction has reached a new low. Instead of confronting a growing crisis where kids are overdosing or dying in homes riddled with fentanyl and ...

Several addiction scientists have suggested GLP-1 weight-loss drugs could cure addiction. We've heard similar claims before, ...

It has taken decades for some to accept the devastating effects of climate change on our planet. Despite scientific evidence that was available years ago, many people were reluctant to make the ...