Recovering alcoholics face significant challenges in changing their habits, due in part to the way the brain adapts to the regular presence of alcohol. A University of Texas at Dallas neuroscientist is trying to pinpoint these neurological changes at the microscopic...
By Veronica L. Holyfield While overall drug OD fatalities hit record numbers in the past year, a new study has found that intentional overdose deaths, or suicides by an overdose of a medication or drug, decreased significantly. No previous research has probed trends...
In a SAMHSA Advisory notification, SAMSHA states: “ Eating disorders (ED’s), which cause serious health problems and can be fatal, frequently co-occur with substance use disorders (SUDs). There are numerous psychosocial consequences of EDs (e.g., problems with...
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