Nick Padlo’s addiction to alcohol and drugs didn’t happen overnight. “I was using them as a tool to cope with depression and anxiety,” says the recovered addict and founder of Sophros Recovery in ...

People in addiction recovery can be liable to disown their addiction, which makes sense, but it also leaves them from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you love someone with substance use problems, this was a particularly cruel week to be on the internet. As soon as authorities ...

People struggling with many addictions, ranging from opioids to gambling, are reporting similar experiences in clinics, on ...

My last two posts dealt with sex addiction and love addiction, respectively. Though I touched on codependence in the latter, this post will further delve into a “romantic” addiction to an individual, ...

More than one in four Americans — including more than a third of millennials — know someone who is or has been been addicted to opioids or prescription painkillers, according to a new national poll ...

I don’t drink anymore. I don’t smoke anymore.” He might have shrugged it off, but reports accumulated in his clinic and ...

GLP-1 medications may quiet the brain signals behind addiction, reducing substance use disorders and overdose risk across ...