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My earlier post, How Alcohol and Substance Use Disorder Impacts Divorce, covered how substance use issues affect custody, parenting time, ...
About 21.2 million U.S. adults had both a mental illness and a substance use disorder in 2024. Statistically speaking, that is a massive overlap, but there’s a reason for it: people often ...
Pennsylvania has the third-worst shortage of behavioral health and substance-use disorder professionals in the country. A new program at Carlow University is helping to fill that gap — and gaining ...
Recently published Cocaine Use Disorder Market Insights report includes a comprehensive understanding of current treatment practices, ...
Something changed this summer. Bank of America, which monitors money moving across its customers' accounts, found that roughly 5% of its customers sent cash to an online betting platform in July, with ...
AI Financial is a leading fintech, specializing in agentic commerce. Its biotech segment has a robust pipeline of non-addictive treatments for pain and will become a separate, independent public ...
A new review in Advances in Therapy finds that the psychedelic alkaloid ibogaine shows broad anti-addictive potential across opioid, stimulant, alcohol, and nicotine use disorders, but serious cardiac ...
Prosecutors say the company filled unnecessary prescriptions that fueled the opioid epidemic. A spokesperson for CVS said the company admitted to no wrongdoing and “strongly disagreed” with the case’s ...
A 74% increase in addictology and toxicomania treatment processes has been recorded in Algeria recently. The rate of addiction treatment has seen a considerable breakthrough between 2015 and 2025.
A multimodal neuroimaging study in China links etomidate use disorder to amplified cue-driven brain responses, impaired prefrontal inhibition of the temporoparietal junction, and widespread cortical ...
Pharmacy giant CVS was sued in 2024 for issuing unnecessary prescriptions for addictive opioids. It recently came to a settlement with the US Department of Justice.
Long-acting therapies, digital solutions and medication-assisted treatment improve adherence, while regulatory support and wider access drive adoption.Dublin, Oct. 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- "Opioid ...
Connection and relationship can make a difference in substance use and addiction. Guy Felicella, a renowned advocate and international speaker ...
Individuals with cannabis, alcohol, and/or nicotine use disorders have a higher risk for generalized anxiety disorder than those without substance use disorder, a study shows.
The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp (PAGCOR) has made further progress in dealing with problems related to gambling, with 40,000 people added to PAGCOR’s gambling exemption program in just six ...
By Nate Raymond Oct 13 (Reuters) - CVS Health has agreed to pay $315 million to resolve allegations that the pharmacy chain operator unlawfully filled medically unnecessary prescriptions for addictive ...
The Center for Addiction Science, Policy and Research (CASPR) and the Allegheny County Department of Human Services are preparing to launch a major $13.3 million randomized controlled trial to test ...
De-addiction treatment works by reversing and rewiring the neural damage caused by Substance Use Disorder (SUD). SUD is seen as a chronic brain disorder and not a failure in ones moral values and ...
“Contingency management is an evidence-based behavioral intervention that uses structured positive reinforcement to encourage behaviors that support recovery,” a spokesperson for Recovery Alberta, the ...
The one-paragraph research 'letter' in a major journal, claiming opioids hardly ever led to addiction, was cited an 'unthinkable' 608 times in other articles ...
The growth of specialized treatment for ultra-high-net-worth individuals, top executives and founders is a positive sign, but growth alone isn't progress.
A new commentary argues that keeping opioid dosing linked to pain, rather than relying solely on fixed schedules, may help distinguish therapeutic use from emerging addiction risk in long-term cancer ...
The Haven Detox expands access to addiction and mental health treatment as Tennessee faces significant gaps in care.
Addiction treatment produces data at every step. An intake assessment, a symptom score, a missed appointment, a medication dispensed, a drug screen result: each ...
Gujarat sees a 95% surge in addiction cases over six years, averaging 344 daily rehabilitation patients. This rise, impacting youth, highlights the urgent ...
Although opioid-related overdose deaths are down in Madison County, first-responders and mental health advocates want the public to know that the opioid epidemic continues to have a big effect, ...
GAMBLING laws in a US state could be about to be relaxed but significant fines could still be issued to those breaking the rules. New legislation has been proposed that would significantly change ...
American technical death metal band Narcotic Wasteland has released a new music video for its latest single, "Fentanyl Zombie Apocalypse," addressing the ...
It's like a "national council on teenage sex abuse taking money from Jeffrey Epstein." The post Gambling Addiction Group in Shambles After It Turns Out It’s Funded by Kalshi appeared first on Futurism ...
Introduction"I promised I would never do it again, but I found more debt." In families struggling with gambling issues, this kind of betrayal is repeated over and over. Both the individual and their ...
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