The Latest Breaking News from Addiction

Decriminalizing hard drugs in B.C. will help reduce the stigma of substance abuse

Substance use disorder is a chronic but treatable medical condition.

The Conversation · Feb 20, 2023

Young Scot Award winner Chelsea Cameron is on a mission to help addicts like her parents

As we launch our search for the Young Scot heroes of 2023, Chelsea tells us her inspirational story.

Daily Record · Feb 19, 2023

Recovery doesn't have to look like A.A.

There's not one right way to addiction recovery, though we've been acculturated to think that

Salon · Feb 18, 2023

NYC’s losing battle with soaring overdose deaths sows grief, devastates a Bronx community

NEW YORK — Ralph Ortiz loved his family, dancing, freestyle music and handball. He taught his sons basketball and how to navigate the streets of the Bronx. He was a near-constant flirt, sometimes to the embarrassment of his kids. He was strong, prideful and funny.

Tribune News Service · Feb 16, 2023

Tyrone GAA star Conn Kilpatrick opens up on stealing and borrowing money to fund gambling addiction

“I was stealing money, I was borrowing money, I just went down the wrong path"

Belfast Live · Feb 16, 2023

As opioids mixed with animal tranquilizers arrive in Philly neighborhood, so do alarming health challenges

PHILADELPHIA — Many people living on the streets in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood — the largest open-air drug market on the East Coast — are in full-blown addiction, openly snorting, smoking or injecting illicit drugs, hunched over crates or on stoops. Syringes litter sidewalks, and the stench of urine fouls the…

Tribune News Service · Feb 16, 2023

Some addiction treatment centers turn big profits by scaling back care

Near the end of his scheduled three-month stay at a rehab center outside Austin, Texas, Daniel McKegney was forced to tell his father in North Carolina that he needed more time and more money, he recently recalled.

Tribune News Service · Feb 16, 2023

Ex-prisoner who had swastika tattooed on wrist aged 16 feels ‘reborn’ after its removal

Ilario Guiducci, 62, said he was ‘completely naive’ when he got the tattoo as a cadet in the Italian army

Wales Online · Feb 15, 2023

Senators talk about upping online safety for kids. This year they could do something

During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, lawmakers blasted tech companies that they said do little to keep kids safe from bullying, addiction and "rabbit holes of dangerous material."

WEKU · Feb 14, 2023

How am I spending early middle age? Playing Phrazle – and other mesmerising word games

I lose time and burn up mental energy in pursuit of a dopamine rush that, as with all addictions, is a diminishing return. If only everyone else would join me

The Guardian - UK · Feb 14, 2023