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Addiction & Recovery
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim says the province has yet to open a single involuntary care bed in the city, two weeks before voters weigh in on the Vancouver drug plebiscite.
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Remember the Marlboro Man? Joe Camel? Fred Flintstone selling cigarettes on television? Those ads now look almost absurd because Americans
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), in partnership with the Department of Health and Human Services
This article was originally published in Psychology Today and is republished here with permission. Why will one person work steadily
A recent survey in the Journal of Addiction Medicine found that 23% of American adults either disagreed or did not know that addiction is a health condition. Jessica
Tom Wolf, who leads West Coast initiatives for the Foundation for Drug Policy Solutions, has become a leader in the recovery-first movement.
A recent survey from Faces & Voices of Recovery, a national leader in the drug policy field, found that Americans’ beliefs about addiction
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Kevin Sabet’s recent Washington Post op-ed, co-authored with Charles Fain Lehman, generated a lot of interest–and some pushback.
For hundreds of years, craving has been recognized as a central causal feature of addiction and relapse.
The study suggests that it is these drugs themselves that increase the risk of stroke, not just other lifestyle factors among users.