If you are starting or considering recovery, you'll need to understand why you got addicted to drugs and how they changed your behavior. You'll also want to know what you can expect from drug ...

She started 29 days in a treatment center and then started going to recovery meetings and spending time with people who didn’t use drugs or alcohol. That was 2005. “Everybody that knew me wanted me to ...

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 ...

Minnesota North College’s Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counseling program has been reshaped and broadened to increase access to addiction support in rural areas across the state.

Addiction and recovery: A philosopher's view Philosophy Professor Hanna Pickard suggests that no case of addiction is exactly like another—and understanding why someone chooses to continue using drugs ...

On this week’s “More To The Story,” author and journalist Shoshana Walter explains how the underregulated drug rehab industry ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The opioid epidemic continues to ravage through North Alabama. Betty Dunn struggled with drug addiction for most of her adult life. She faced a hard jail time, and she ...

Families faced with addiction often reluctantly, and only after many failures, use “tough love” to promote treatment and recovery while insisting that their addicted loved ones be drug-free.