Nick Padlo's addiction to alcohol and drugs didn't happen overnight. "I was using them as a tool to cope with depression and anxiety," says the recovered addict and founder of Sophros Recovery ...

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Nick grew up with one brother, Jake, and a sister, Romy — both actors. Rob was also the adoptive father of Tracy Reiner, the ...

Last April, neuroscientist Sue Grigson received an e-mail from a man detailing his years-long struggle to kick addiction — first to opioids, and then to the very medication meant to help him quit. The ...

Trump reclassified marijuana as a Schedule III drug. Does that finally end Florida's battle over recreational use?

Psychiatrist Robert Custer spent his life convincing doctors that compulsive gambling was not an impulse control problem. Today, his research is foundational for diagnosis and treatment.

Nick Reiner, 32, has been arrested in connection with the death of his parents, Rob and Michele Singer Reiner, after they ...

Sensible leadership would try to figure out the reasons for the past year’s drop in overdoses and build on that rather than ...

Rather than thinking that adolescence ends at 18, groundbreaking brain research has shown that critical brain developmental ...

A local woman is speaking out about addiction after losing her father to an overdose. She says the stigma of drug use labeled ...

Christopher Breen, 50, will graduate from Salford’s MA Drama Production for TV, Film and Digital Media programme, as a passionate filmmaker who has changed his life around after a difficult few years.

Sometimes addiction has more to do with the ability to tolerate day-to-day life without the substance: self-regulation.