Residents, advocates and a few legislators gathered in Burlington last week to discuss additional recovery efforts, what’s working and what’s missing. The panel discussion “Recovery First in ...

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In junior high, AJ Sawtelle abused alcohol for the first time. By freshman year of high school, she began smoking marijuana. As the years progressed, so did her addiction. She did it to fit in, show ...

The terms “addiction” and “dependence” can seem similar, but they are different. Dependence occurs when the body physically relies on a drug. Addiction involves changes in behavior. A person with an ...

Mental health experts are nearly unanimous in endorsing the disease model of addiction. Alcoholism (now alcohol use disorder) was declared a disease in 1956 by the American Medical Association, and ...

Addiction is often defined by its source: drugs, alcohol, gambling, etc. But focusing on the substance or behavior alone misses a deeper issue: Many who overcome one addiction simply replace it with ...