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 ...

The Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School welcomed its online student cohort to its Center City, Minnesota, campus last week. | The school, which admitted its first students in 1999, offers a master’s ...

Healthcare experts say one of the best ways to prevent addiction is to ease the stigma of it and discuss it more openly.(WTOP/Melissa Howell ) Admiral James ‘Sandy’ Winnefeld was one of the most ...

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 ...

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MARK: A TREASURE COAST COUPLE STARTED A SCHOLARSHIP IN THEIR SON’S NAME. AND THIS WEEK, THAT COUPLE IS PREPARING TO AWARD MORE SCHOLARSHIPS IN MEMORY OF THEIR LATE SON WHO LOST HIS BATTLE WITH ...

It’s absorbing, accessible, affordable and addictive as drugs. It served as a way to escape for Michael Vallerie at 16 years old. “Probably around seven to eight hours [of] screen time per day,” ...

VCU pharmacy students hosted a prescription drug take back event that included a blood drive, cancer donor matching and ...

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 ...

A planned conversion of a Bedford memory care facility into an addiction treatment center has left families of current ...