John first walked into my clinical office several years ago to receive help for what he described as crippling anxiety and depression. He was having trouble sleeping, his appetite was disturbed, he ...

If I don’t change, my life will not get better.” Those were my son Daniel’s words—an aha moment of clarity, the springboard ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Marianne is a Boston resident who has been in recovery for ...

Research has shown that approximately 10 percent of the U.S. population has a substance use disorder. Of the 2.3 million individuals in American prisons and jails, more than 65 percent meet the ...

America's pervasive addiction crisis is intensifying because of COVID-19. To cite one horrific example, suspected overdoses increased 42 percent in May. Social distancing, which has led to the loss of ...

The challenges of drug and alcohol addiction are familiar, but violence against others is highly unusual, parents say ...

A pervasive stigma surrounding drug addiction eased throughout the eight years of the Baker administration, elected officials and recovery organization leaders declared Tuesday in Quincy during a ...

For instance, many people wrongly equate addicts with the homeless. A CNN report reveals this mindset. Their reporting on the homeless epidemic in San Francisco [1] leads with a description of a woman ...

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 ...

Managing addiction and recovery can extend to every corner of a person’s life, including their work or employment. That’s why it’s more important than ever to create recovery-inclusive workplaces that ...

For over a decade, opioid-related deaths in the U.S. have dominated headlines. In 2010, the sobering data reported in the New England Journal of Medicine article “A Flood of Opioids, a Rising Tide of ...