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The Camden County Board of Commissioners and the Addiction Awareness Task Force (AATF) launched the Break the Stigma campaign to change the conversation around addiction and recovery. This initiative ...

Rachel Winograd is the Director of Addiction Science at the Missouri Institute of Mental Health. She spoke about how the dominant perception of people who use drugs can impact their ability to seek ...

A few items in the news recently: I. Jamie Lee Curtis announces her 22nd year of sobriety. Actor Jamie Lee Curtis has proudly proclaimed her 22 years of sobriety from the pharmaceutical opiate, ...

Addiction research poses an exciting challenge for young scientists who wish to address one of the most important and persistent problems confronting society today (see Chapter 2). However, a number ...

When considering the drugs most likely to cause former addicts to repeatedly relapse, opioids, cocaine, and methamphetamine ...

After a surge fueled by the opioid epidemic and the spread of fentanyl, drug overdose deaths in the United States have begun to decline, as have nonfatal overdoses. The exact reasons for this drop ...

Drug overdose deaths vary widely across racial and ethnic groups in the United States. The rates are higher in some communities due to unequal healthcare access, socioeconomic barriers, and systemic ...

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MCKENNA COMING UP IN JUST A LITTLE WHILE. ALL RIGHT. THANKS, TJ. SEE YOU THEN. TODAY IS NATIONAL PRESCRIPTION DRUG. TAKE BACK DAY, AN EVENT HOSTED BY THE U.S. DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION TO RETURN ...