As we mark National Recovery Month this September, it's imperative to acknowledge the significant impact of substance use disorder and the pervasive stigma that hampers recovery efforts. This impacts ...

Las Vegas star and former “America’s Got Talent” semifinalist Murray SawChuck, a master at blending humor with illusion, is ...

Research indicates that more than half of veterans with a substance use disorder do not receive effective treatment, a concern that Rachel Girard, a doctoral student at the University of Rhode Island, ...

A popular class of therapies for treating diabetes and obesity may also have the potential to treat alcohol and drug ...

At AIDS 2024 in July, Kelly Dyer, MD, Perelman School of Medicine, presented research findings from an investigation at the intersection of health equity, substance use detox, infectious disease ...

Charleston County School District has been awarded a $500,000, multi-year grant from the Public School Districts' Opioid ...

A popular class of therapies for treating diabetes and obesity may also have the potential to treat alcohol and drug ...

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and First Lady Anna Stein announced the launch of Unshame NC, a public campaign to reduce the stigma around substance use disorders.The ...

Substance use disorder, the repeated misuse or abuse of substances such as alcohol or opioids, is a chronic, treatable disease that’s often mischaracterized as an individual’s moral failing. That, in ...

It is tempting to think that people in the medical community, and especially physicians, are immune from bias and stigma. They are highly educated and well trained, and we might suspect that they ...

Joshua Kaufman, MD, medical director of Behavioral Health and Medical Integration at Capital District Physicians' Health Plan, discusses the bidirectional relationship between schizophrenia and ...