Heroin overdose deaths are now all too common in this country. The news is inundated with people who have lost their battle with heroin and left their families and...
For those that are not addicted to drugs and/or alcohol it can be a wonder that some addicts continuously go back and forth between being sober and abusing drugs....
If there was a pill that could help your patients kick a methamphetamine addiction, would you prescribe it? Medications and immune therapies that would blunt, or even block, an...
The results of a recent survey published in the October issue of Psychiatric Services point to the fact that American society can’t decide on how to categorize substance abuse....
Tennessee became the first state to pass a law aimed at trying to charge pregnant women with a crime if they are addicted to drugs and refuse to get...
The 21-year-old singer and former US X Factor judge, Demi Lovato, has transformed herself from child-star-gone-wrong to outspoken role model in a matter of years. The former Disney star...
An interesting development in Broward County, FL recently revealed that a judge in a local drug court, Gisele Pollack, had fallen back into substance abuse after many years of...