University of Massachusetts Medical School scientists developed a smartphone app that may be able to ward off drug cravings in substance abusers. The app, called iHeal, would use both physical and ...

Background: The self-help groups Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) are very well established. AA and NA employ a 12-step program and are found in most large cities around the ...

Meth played a significant role in Kathleen Smith’s life. But, spending a year in county homeless shelters – most recently at the new Port Orchard shelter, Pacific Building – allowed Smith to turn her ...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) -- Coronavirus isolation is making it harder for people battling alcoholism and drug abuse. Myrover-Reese Fellowship Home is a group in Fayetteville that's spent nearly six ...

Nick Carbonaro's mom will tell you her son wasn't a bad person. He just made some bad decisions. After struggling with addiction for years in February he died of a heroin overdose. "I wake him up the ...

Despite the growing prevalence of addiction among seniors, many cases go undetected even in health care settings where older ...

One way to get that pleasure is to seek retaliation. Additional brain scan studies have shown that when people imagine ...

TRUMANN, Ark. - It's being called one of the biggest drug busts in the history of northeastern Arkansas: The FBI announced on Tuesday the indictments of 21 people accused of distributing ...