Opioid addiction is a long-term, manageable disease. Like other ongoing conditions – such as high blood pressure and diabetes – setbacks, including relapse, can happen. About half the people who have ...

Addiction is a long-term condition, like asthma, diabetes, or high blood pressure. Of course, the goal is to stop using drugs or alcohol completely and not relapse. But when you see your addiction as ...

Why are some individuals able to use recreational drugs in a controlled way, whereas others switch to the compulsive, relapsing drug-seeking and -taking habits that characterize substance use disorder ...

In Philadelphia, over 1,170 people died of opioid overdoses in 2022, the last year for which complete data is available. More than 300 more died just over the bridge in Camden County. Research ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Drug addiction, a disease that takes hundreds of lives in Palm Beach County every year, is often misunderstood and mistreated.

With any addiction in which a user has successfully resisted a chemical, activity or substance, relapse is vexing. And with opioids, it's often deadly. Fatal overdoses following relapse from an opioid ...

Fomeche is an addiction medicine fellow at Yale University. In medicine, we like to believe that progress is linear. That once a patient stabilizes, regains lost skills, and returns to work, the ...

Why would someone who seems to be doing well with their recovery start drinking again? This scenario often puzzles family and friends. Especially when they have witnessed a loved one successfully ...

Macklemore hopes to help "lessen" the "guilt and shame of the disease of addiction," thanks in part to a new partnership with CLEAN Cause When Macklemore appeared on Dax Shepard's podcast in April, he ...

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President and CEO of Lucid Lane. Software technology expert and digital health advocate. While there is no substitute for rehabilitation counseling, technology — especially wearables and discreet apps ...