A patient of mine, a veteran who had tried to quit smoking for over a decade, told me that after he started a GLP-1 drug for his diabetes, he lost interest in cigarettes. He didnt ...

Lamar Odom says he saw the afterlife during his near-fatal 2015 coma as Untold revisits his overdose, recovery and years-long ...

Eight South Asian women will take to the catwalk at the annual Fashion Brunch to share powerful stories of addiction and recovery ...

Lamar Odom’s struggles with addictions are no secret, but the NBA champion and those closest to him are coming clean in Netflix’s . The trailer, which dropped on March 3, opens with the infamous 2015 ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency says two milligrams of fentanyl is considered a lethal dose, and it continues to take a terrible toll in Florida and across America. Police and doctors ...

NEW YORK — Former NBA star Lamar Odom says he saw the afterlife after nearly dying from a drug overdose in 2015. He discusses this experience in the new Netflix documentary “The Death & Life of Lamar ...

A pilot program at the Open Doors transitional home, a Rhode Island not-for-profit, has offered the drugs to 18 of its residents, many of whom say the GLP-1s, along with the other supports offered ...

The opioid crisis documentary 'The Hotline,' directed by Ricki Stern and Jesse Sweet, will premiere at the True/False Film Fest in Columbia, MO.

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. — A first-of-its-kind recovery center is opening in Hillsborough County with a mission not only to treat substance use disorders, but to reunite families and help former ...

Roughly 30,000 people every year may be getting wrongfully arrested because of unreliable field drug tests, according to one ...

A new worldwide study reports that spirituality significantly decreased substance abuse addiction and relapse, a belief Alcoholics Anonymous has held for many years.

Post-acute withdrawal syndrome (PAWS) and PTSD share many of the same symptoms. Getting it right when treating addiction increases patients' chances of lasting recovery.