Finding trustworthy help for addiction and mental health concerns can be one of the most difficult steps a person takes.

It is vital to follow a healthcare professional’s instructions when taking an opioid, such as hydrocodone. Medications, such as methadone, can help relieve withdrawal symptoms and support addiction ...

As rates of fentanyl overdoses increase across the country, local addiction recovery providers find ways to start and succeed in substance recovery. Opioid-involved drug overdoses increased by 3% in ...

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

Like many who have endured childhood trauma, Shannon Hicks turned to drugs at an early age. Pregnant by 16 and a mother of two by 19, she was married and living in her first home — believing she was ...

It can be challenging to love someone who has an addiction—painful to observe their loss of control and accruing harm, painful to experience the “disappearance” of the person you care about, and ...

Social media addiction has been compared to casinos, opioids and cigarettes. While there’s some debate among experts about the line between overuse and addiction, and whether social media can cause ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about branding, burnout, and redefining ambition. For many executives, burnout becomes a cycle. They push hard, run on ...

Addiction treatment is essential to addressing the worsening overdose crisis in the United States. Drug overdose deaths in the United States increased more than 50 percent since the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

Prescription weight loss drugs have been lauded as the miracle drug for treating diabetes and obesity, but new research suggests that these drugs, known as glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) ...