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 ...

Every day, drug and alcohol addiction shatters families, destabilizes neighborhoods, derails careers, and steals the lives of countless Americans. This National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery ...

Becky Bernhardt vividly remembers bawling on the phone years ago as she spoke with her son, who was struggling with homelessness and addiction. On Wednesday evening, she stood in front of a room full ...

Despite what people may tell you, changing behavior is easy. It’s maintaining change that’s hard—creating new and sustained ways of thinking and behaving. As Mark Twain quipped, “Quitting [smoking] is ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. The disease of addiction, also known as substance use disorder, is a crisis that touches families in every community and neighborhood in our Nation. 48.4 million ...

There are few experiences more grueling and painful than watching a parent, a brother or sister, or especially a child careen off the rails because of alcohol or other drug addiction. Having a loved ...

Addiction can affect anyone, regardless of gender, background or economic status, according to an addiction recovery professional. "But there is hope, and there is recovery," said Kelley McCahill, ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order establishing what he called the Great American Recovery Initiative, an effort aimed at coordinating the federal government’s response to ...

Many of the most inspiring stories to come from the Rx and Illicit Drug Summit are those of people celebrating sobriety. They have lived through the very challenges being addressed. Laura Rogers spoke ...