“They know that dad goes to an AA meeting every Tuesday and Thursday,” Shepard told Clinton. “One of the cuter moments was, I wanna say my oldest daughter was 3 — back when my daughters really wanted ...

Looking back on the darkest moments of your life isn’t something most people enjoy doing. For the folks behind recovery meme accounts, though, it’s the source of some of their funniest jokes — and the ...

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 ...

If someone you love is dealing with addiction, you’ve probably experienced a range of emotions from fear to anger to deep sadness and hope. Millions of people are right there with you. In 2017, 19.7 ...

AMARILLO, Texas (KVII) — For weeks now, we have looked at myriad effects of addiction – from the body to the mind to the people those suffering care about the most. An estimated 30% to 50% of those ...

EEEEexposure to heroin sharply reduces levels of the protein necessary for developing and maintaining the brain’s synapses, a preclinical study by UB researchers has found. The development of ...

With any addiction in which a user has successfully resisted a chemical, activity or substance, relapse is vexing. And with opioids, it's often deadly. Fatal overdoses following relapse from an opioid ...

Before the pandemic, the United States was already in the midst of a national opioid crisis, with nearly 50,000 deaths a year from opioid-related overdoses. And in 2018, there were more than 164 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – At just 10 months sober, Michael Quinones suffered a horrible injury that would almost certainly send him back into the harrowing grips of addiction…if he decided to keep ...