Based on the most recent statistics from the 2024 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 48.4 million Americans (16.8%) aged 12 and older were diagnosed with a substance use disorder (SUD) in the ...

BETHESDA, Md., Dec. 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Addiction Policy Forum today released a spotlight of impactful addiction studies published recently.

For as long as the federal government has worked to support substance use treatment, it has operated on a simple premise: Addiction medicine’s objective is to help people using drugs stop — completely ...

Nick Padlo's addiction to alcohol and drugs didn't happen overnight. "I was using them as a tool to cope with depression and anxiety," says the recovered addict and founder of Sophros Recovery ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WSET) — BrightView Roanoke Addiction Treatment Center is marking a milestone with its one-year anniversary of providing effective outpatient addiction treatment. The center celebrated ...

For many of us, it isn't too hard to come up with the name of someone we know or who is close to us who has struggled with addiction. And yet, as a society, we continue to fail so many of them.