The best way to tackle Arkansas' substance use crisis is through education, partnership, vulnerability and action.

A huge problem in our country is that most of the people whom we trust to provide addiction treatment are poorly qualified or unqualified. The biggest group of these are people without any ...

A new training and development resource is available to the state’s addiction and substance use prevention professionals. The New Jersey Prevention Network recently launched The Learning Center. The ...

Healthcare experts say one of the best ways to prevent addiction is to ease the stigma of it and discuss it more openly.(WTOP/Melissa Howell ) Admiral James ‘Sandy’ Winnefeld was one of the most ...

The Department of Psychiatry gives residents the opportunity to train in Addiction Medicine and Addiction Psychiatry to help those battling substance use disorders and addiction through our fellowship ...

Nearly a decade into the opioid epidemic and in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, physicians in America seem to remain uncertain about how to identify and treat patients with addiction disorders, a ...

The drive to drink for someone with alcohol addiction often transforms from a pursuit of pleasure to a desperate need to escape the profound discomfort of withdrawal. New research has now identified a ...

MARK: A TREASURE COAST COUPLE STARTED A SCHOLARSHIP IN THEIR SON’S NAME. AND THIS WEEK, THAT COUPLE IS PREPARING TO AWARD MORE SCHOLARSHIPS IN MEMORY OF THEIR LATE SON WHO LOST HIS BATTLE WITH ...

New research with mice has provided some fascinating insight into how addictive drugs hijack reward signals and influence neural processes associated with learning and memory. The research, published ...

Scientists have found that the process of adaptive myelination, which helps the brain learn new skills, can also promote addiction to opioids. Our brains, even in adulthood, continually adapt to what ...

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