The term cross addiction is relatively new but is something that has always been seen in clinical practices. It is a situation where an individual has more than one addiction or uses more than one ...

Darnell Cox started using marijuana and alcohol around the age of 12. By 20 he had been introduced to hard drugs. His uncle had been released from prison, and Cox started spending time with him and ...

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 ...

The month of September is National Recovery Month. Sponsored by SAMHSA (The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) and now in its 30th year, National Recovery Month was created to ...

There’s a very heartfelt letter in today’s Wausau Pilot and Review. A former drug addict says his program, Adult and Teen ...

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 ...

RICHMOND, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation (Anthem) has provided a $50,000 grant to the McShin Foundation to help increase access to stable housing and peer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHICAGO — Michael Seminetta, a recovering heroin addict, is riding his bike from Chicago to Santa Monica, California, to raise ...