The drive to drink for someone with alcohol addiction often transforms from a pursuit of pleasure to a desperate need to ...

Scripps Research scientists discovered that a brain region in the thalamus drives relapse by linking alcohol with stress ...

If you're someone or know someone recovering from addiction, you've likely seen a relapse. The rug gets pulled out from under you, the other shoe drops, and old feelings of worry and fear come ...

A new study highlights how the brain learns to keep alcohol addiction going, not for pleasure but to escape withdrawal stress.

Relapse isn’t a failure. It’s a signal. It tells us that something deeper is still driving our old behaviors. For decades, I’ve studied the science of addiction, relapse, and behavior change through ...

This is a time where we can recognize and celebrate the more than 23 million Americans living in Recovery from a substance use disorder. As a society, it is vital that we understand the impact that ...

Karen Warberg had already cycled through three different residential treatment programs across two states trying to break her ...

Pete Townshend is opening up about a recent relapse in his long-held sobriety after a surgery led to him getting “re-addicted ...

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Drug addiction, a disease that takes hundreds of lives in Palm Beach County every year, is often misunderstood and mistreated. That's slowly changing, but experts say much is yet to be done. Private ...

New reporting has shed light on Jim Irsay’s final months, painting a troubling picture of relapse and questionable medical ...