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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GLP-1 receptor agonists, already used for Type 2 diabetes and obesity, show promise in reducing alcohol and drug-seeking ...

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 ...

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.

In a clinical landscape where traditional addiction treatment programs struggle with sobering relapse rates, one physician is quietly achieving what many experts considered impossible: an 80% sobriety ...

I never get over the weirdness of introducing myself to a group of people at a 12-step meeting. “Hi, I’m T and I’m an addict,” is how I have started a lot of conversations. Other people in recovery ...