Chestnut Health Systems and Lighthouse Institute are recruiting 48 families to participate in their new research study on how ...

The White House issued an executive order Jan. 29 to address substance use and addiction. The order establishes the White House Great American Recovery Initiative, a federal effort tasked with ...

University of Texas at Arlington Professor Dana Litt contributed to a study led by Alex Russell, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, that found many parents turn to online peer advice when ...

One in four U.S. adolescents is exposed to violence in their neighborhood, and those teens are more than twice as likely to use cigarettes, alcohol, or drugs to cope, according to a new study from the ...

On January 27 and 28, 2026, the Government of Canada hosted the Governments of Mexico and the United States in Ottawa for the Ninth Meeting of the North ...

January is Substance Use Disorder Treatment Month, which is designed to raise awareness about those suffering with substance ...

According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, nearly 48.4 million Americans experienced a substance use disorder in the past year.

Substance use and substance use disorder differ by the frequency of use and the effect on a person’s life. Substance use disorder is a mental health condition. Substance use refers to using both legal ...

Members of a newly formed coalition aimed at preventing substance use and suicide met Thursday to begin shaping the group's identity.

Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is one of the leading causes of preventable death in the United States and worldwide, and leads to substantial disease and medical complications. While treatments are ...

A network analysis reveals that individuals who co-use alcohol and cannabis face higher symptom severity across all mental health domains than those who use only alcohol.

Addiction is an umbrella term that reflects qualities of substance use disorder, characterized by an inability to stop using a substance despite harmful consequences. However, addiction is not a ...