More than 48 million Americans — 16.8% of the 12-and-older population — have a substance use disorder (SUD), according to the ...

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 ...

A new national study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, with colleagues at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, University of Chicago, National Opinion Research ...

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 ...

The Into Light Project is making its way across the country, with an art exhibit featuring original graphite portraits of ...

Clark Burford knows what it’s like to lie in bed and stare at the clock while suffering from cold chills and the anguishing pains that come with opiate withdrawal. He knows all about the mental ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Opioid overdoses are the number one cause of accidental death in the United States, and rates of mental health ...

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 ...

Leading up to the pandemic, alcohol misuse was on the rise, with a JAMA Network Open study revealing that 1 in 5 deaths of U.S. adults 20 to 49 were attributed to excessive drinking. During the ...

The CEO of a large New York company recently met with us to discuss a business problem: a culture of heavy substance use. He was worried about the health of his employees, and he was worried that it ...