For as long as the federal government has worked to support substance use treatment, it has operated on a simple premise: Addiction medicine’s objective is to help people using drugs stop — completely ...

I can't even think of how many times I've heard the notion that complete, total, abstinence should be the only goal for all people who abuse drug or alcohol. This idea is so pervasive that most ...

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. Not long ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s history of heroin addiction alone would likely have disqualified him from ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Editor’s note: This is the second of two stories on housing and addiction. You ...

The University of Michigan Collegiate Recovery Program provides community support to students in abstinence-based recovery from substance use disorders through academic and social networks. The ...