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 ...

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 ...

Having watched family members struggle with substance use disorders, recent University of Minnesota Twin Cities graduate Madelyn Blake wanted to change the way addiction is treated and discussed. Now, ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn (WTNH) — If you have a teenager in your home, this is a fact that may shock you. Ninety percent of addiction begins in the teenage years, according to the Partnership for Drug-free ...

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 Federal Medical Center in Lexington has a fairly simple purpose — it’s a facility used to treat seriously ill people who are imprisoned by the federal government. Its intended use when it opened ...

Behind packed calendars and polished résumés, millions are battling addiction in white-collar professions. It's not who you'd ...

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 ...

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 ...