The Camden County Board of Commissioners and the Addiction Awareness Task Force (AATF) launched the Break the Stigma campaign to change the conversation around addiction and recovery. This initiative ...

Based on the most recent statistics from the 2024 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 48.4 million Americans (16.8%) aged 12 and older were diagnosed with a substance use disorder (SUD) in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A vending machine in Illinois offered free naloxone. The drug can allow a bystander to help someone who is overdosing on an opioid ...

Some of the most recently available data brings welcome news in the nationwide fight against the opioid epidemic. After many months of increasing overdose deaths in the wake of the Covid pandemic – a ...

Nebraska researchers are focusing on the special challenges of preventing and treating drug abuse and addiction in rural ...

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health, to discuss addiction as a brain disorder, treatments for ...

Take a good look around any major urban area– and now, many rural spaces too– and you’ll see signs of drug abuse and addiction. The Baltimore City Department of Health reports that “In 2023, Baltimore ...

In a survey, 50% of mental health professionals said that they treated a patient who died by suicide; a third reported a moderate-to-extreme emotional impact from the incident, with sadness, regret, ...