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 ...

A church in Alabama's Bible Belt. The state is home to more than 13,000 religious institutions. Leaders from them are being certified as recovery specialists, to better aid those with substance ...

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 ...

Huml Health, a Bentonville-based health care technology startup, will soon offer technology to help people recover from drug ...

Placing addiction treatment within a community has tremendous therapeutic potential because of how it can help people find new identities and also newfound hope and optimism about relationships with ...

We need a new paradigm for addiction that puts psychology first and recognizes its heterogeneity. Only then will we see that for some, addiction is a form of deliberate self-harm.