MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) - Horry-Georgetown Technical College started its 17th annual addiction and recovery lectures with a familiar face. Actor and comedian Tom Arnold spoke at Thursday night’s ...

The Champion Center, Lompoc’s chemical dependency treatment facility, is sponsoring a community lecture Oct. 12 by Jenny and Scott Graham, nationally recognized experts on addiction and intervention.

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 ...

The RWJBarnabas Health Institute for Prevention and Recovery (IFPR), with RWJBarnabas Health Acute Care Provider Services, ...

The news about addiction — rising rates of addiction, record numbers of overdose deaths, and the like — tends to be bleak. As clinicians and researchers, however, we have the good fortune to often see ...

CONWAY — Horry-Georgetown Technical College's 15th annual Addiction and Recovery Lecture Series will feature Hootie & the Blowfish drummer Jim Sonefeld, former NFL linebacker Thomas “Hollywood” ...

It's time for America to end its black-and-white thinking about addiction and recovery, according to Johns Hopkins professor Hanna Pickard. Traditional approaches in the U.S.—framing addiction as ...

Drug abuse and drug addiction are related but not the same. Drug abuse describes using legal or illegal substances in a way that is harmful, whereas drug addiction is a physical or psychological ...

Addiction science is increasingly looking beyond clinics to technologies we already wear on our wrists. A recent trial suggests that wearables, better known for counting steps or tracking sleep, may ...

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 ...

Every day, people embark on the road to recovery from addiction. Some choose—or are remanded by law enforcement—to do it with the help of some type of clinical service, some prefer the support of ...