Dingle and colleagues explored the influence of addiction and addiction treatment on identity. They interviewed 21 people in a treatment community and found two distinct pathways, from pre-addiction ...

It's time for America to end its black-and-white thinking about addiction and recovery, according to Johns Hopkins professor Hanna Pickard. Traditional approaches in the U.S.—framing addiction as ...

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 ...

Melissa Mikkonen is a program manager at Blue Cross and Blue Shield. She aims to provide easy and accessible addiction recovery care. “It's on us to not only have good, solid programs, but to make ...

Key Takeaways Remote addiction therapy provides flexible treatment options that accommodate work schedules and daily responsibilities without compromising recovery effectiveness. Virtual treatment ...

Katelyn Fullbright on the day she graduated from Women in Recovery.Credit...Barrett Emke for The New York Times Supported by By Nicholas Kristof Photographs by Barrett Emke Mr. Kristof is an Opinion ...

A well-known unattributed quote notes that you don’t get over an addiction by stopping using but rather by creating a new life where it is easier to not use. And if you don’t create that new life, ...

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 ...