Maryland Public Television will premiere the hour-long documentary Real Stories of Addiction and Hope on September 22, 2025, at 9 p.m. on MPT channels and its livestream. The program coincides with ...

Adults who smoke cigarettes and are addicted to alcohol or other drugs were more likely to achieve sustained remission of their substance use disorder symptoms if they also quit smoking, according to ...

Alcohol addiction is a complex but treatable condition, and there are more treatment options available now than ever before. According to the national survey on drug use and health, in 2023, about ...

In 2003, Wendy Dossett chaired an international symposium at a UK university. “I don’t remember chairing it. I know that I did, but I don’t remember anything that happened,” she says. At the time, she ...

Aug. 13 (UPI) --A new federal study is linking the ability to quit smoking with longer-term success from the grip of drug or alcohol addiction, as well. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health ...

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. Not long ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s history of heroin addiction alone would likely have disqualified him from ...

When I look back on my journey, I’m reminded of how much can change when you are able to ask for, and receive, help. My name is Dr. Christopher Schenewerk. I am a physician, a father, and a person in ...

Christopher Finley understands what it’s like to relapse after recovering from alcohol addiction. He had been sober for 12 years after completing a residential addiction treatment program. But he ...

Derek Greenwood is an adjunct faculty member at Columbia Gorge Community College, an emergency department nurse who works in Goldendale and a certified drug and alcohol counselor. As someone with ...