While the current opioid epidemic has captured the attention of the country and its policy makers by becoming the leading cause of death in the United States for those younger than age 50, addiction ...

What is addiction? It is enduringly difficult to say. Our methods of treating addiction have become, over time, both more compassionate and more effective. Yet the nature of addiction itself remains ...

In light of the toll addiction takes on individuals, their families, communities, and society at large, it is understandable that many people want to know the answer to the question: What causes ...

A new payment model bridges services in the clinical setting and the community to improve outcomes for patients with substance use disorder. The number of deaths from opioids has risen sharply, with a ...

Delaware’s Department of Health will use $2 million in federal funding to expand and improve substance abuse treatment and access to care in the state. The funding will be rewarded to three treatment ...

Drug addiction may not require a habitual relationship with a substance, suggests findings from a new model of cocaine administration in rats that better captures the human experience of obtaining and ...

As a Canadian-born physician who has treated people with opioid use disorder on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border, I know that if I ever needed addiction treatment I’d head to the Great White North ...