The app, made available by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, provides 24/7 resources for people experiencing addiction.

Appointments with our recovery specialists are available through virtual care. Contact our office to set up a virtual visit. We offer high-quality treatment for adults struggling with alcohol and drug ...

As rates of fentanyl overdoses increase across the country, local addiction recovery providers find ways to start and succeed in substance recovery. Opioid-involved drug overdoses increased by 3% in ...

Maia Szalavitz is the author, most recently, of "Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction." When I kicked cocaine and heroin in 1988, I was told that there was ...

It's time for America to end its black-and-white thinking about addiction and recovery, according to Johns Hopkins professor Hanna Pickard. Traditional approaches in the U.S.—framing addiction as ...

People often take a myopic view when they begin seeking help for addiction. The consensus is that people in recovery want freedom from their drug or compulsion, whether that be drugs, alcohol, food, ...

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 ...