Is addiction a disease? From a medical perspective, are substance use disorders (SUDs) on par with, say, heart disease—if not, how do they differ? Source: Jesse Orrico/Unsplash These questions are ...
I would not presume to say that any particular person’s addiction is or is not a moral failing; only they should decide that. But I can say without any doubt that individual recovery and the community ...
The calls to invoke civil involuntary commitment laws for people with Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) are getting louder in communities with a marked increase of overdose deaths. Preliminary data ...
Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. In 2016, Rachel Winograd began to see methadone patients who relapsed or left the treatment program where she ...
The Rochester Area Depressive Bipolar Support Alliance Support Group meets at 6:30 p.m. Monday at Bethel Lutheran Church. The time was incorrect on Page 4C Monday. For all that has been written and ...
Dr. Nora Volkow, director of NIDA, said in that same article that “informed Americans no longer view addiction as a moral failing,” and that rather than a simple matter of individual choices, ...
Joshua B. Grubbs receives funding from the National Institute for Civil Discourse and the Charles Koch Foundation. A 21-year-old white man is alleged to have entered three different spas in the ...
Video games are often blamed for unemployment, violence in society and addiction – including by partisan politicians raising moral concerns. Blaming video games for social or moral decline might feel ...
BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey has signed the addiction and substance use disorder bill that expands access to overdose reversal drugs, establishes licensure for recovery coaches, and limits legal ...