Addiction & Recovery Articles

The first five days of quitting smoking are the hardest, but this quitter stuck it out and is nicotine-free now. Would you like to quit cigarettes too? Read on for advice on how to quit and to remind yourself of the benefits of being a non smoker.

Every year in the United States alone, over 400,000 people die of tobacco-related diseases. Tens of millions die in other countries. E-cigarettes may offer a way for some people to stop smoking--so isn't that a good thing?

Heroin is still the single most popular drug worldwide. How can addicts set themselves up for a successful recovery?

Scientists have located a gene that seems to determine how much alcohol people will drink. Understanding how this gene works may lead to treatments for binge drinking

Charles is caught in a self-destructive cycle that causes much pain and immobilization. It is a cycle that many people are stuck in. The negative cycle starts with some form of self-judgment.

Meet the most bizarre medical invention of the century so far: the "drunk without alcohol" pill.

Illegal drugs now used almost as often as methamphetamines and molly (molecular MDMA), "bath salts" are a designer drug that lawmakers find impossible to control, despite their potentially deadly side effects.

People prone to alcohol abuse have long been advised to "get out and do something" (other than bar hopping) to get their minds off drinking. A new study finds that getting out for exercise may evern reverse alcohol-related damage to the brain.

With increasing general awareness about the ill-effects of smoking, many smokers have quit. While more than 50% of the smokers have given up on smoking, only 34% of mentally ill Americans have done so. Find what is preventing them from quitting smoking.

Oxycontin abuse is on the decline in the USA, although it is stubbornly persistent in Canada.