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How Making art improves mental health

May is mental health awareness month, making it a great time to invest in new ways to tend to your emotions. Creating various pieces of...

How older adults can get help with addiction

"You might be surprised to learn how many older adults are living with addiction, misusing substances like alcohol, nicotine and...

Health experts explain benefits of Dry January

Dry January is a worldwide initiative and millions take part. The initiative got its start more than a decade ago as the Alcohol Change...

What Happens to Your Body if You Stop Drinking Alcohol?

It’s no secret that consuming alcohol is fundamentally not healthy. We’ve all heard the benefits of not drinking–things like better...

Hospitals have specialists on call for lots of diseases — but not addiction. Why not?

"In the fall of 2020, Tadie launched a new approach at Salem Hospital, using $320,000 from a federal grant that the hospital had worked...

yoga as a tool for addiction recovery and mental health

"Practicing yoga on a regular basis helps with more than just flexibility . . . According to American Addiction Centers, yoga encourages...

When it comes to addiction, Americans’ word choices are part of the problem

"In recent years, a coalition of doctors, recovery advocates, researchers, and even government officials have pushed to swap out...

the harm of weed use during pregnancy

New research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), shows that marijuana...

STAT: Punishing drug use heightens the stigma of addiction

August 17, 2021: Research has consistently shown that interacting with members of a stigmatized group and hearing their stories directly...

PBS: Fatherhood, addiction and recovery: an Indigenous man’s story from Canada’s Yellowknife

June 20, 2021: A story from a series about the Indigenous community in Yellowknife, Canada, exploring alcohol use, addiction, resilience...