Addiction and Treatment Blog

PORTLAND, Me. — Heroin, which has long flourished in the nation’s big urban centers, has been making an alarming comeback in the smaller ci...

Dear Addiction © Zeb Edington I’m writing this to you Telling you we're through I can’t take you anymore Don’t know what I like...

Understanding How People Change is First Step in Changing Unhealthy Behavior Stages-of-change research has been used to develop dozens o...

New Methods Show Promise to Help Smokers Quit Researcher calls for new federal performance standards for nicotine and toxicants in tobacc...

There is no such thing as a "Major Setback." I hear people say this quite frequently and I try as often as possible to correct th...

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. O...

A co-occurring disorder, also referred to as dual diagnosis, is when a person has a mental disorder, such as anxiety or depression alo...