If you're like most people I know who have decided to leave alcohol behind, you’d do just about anything to avoid slipping up. Slip-ups have a bad reputation. We’re taught to equate them with failure, ...

Nearly a quarter of patients who beat the high short-term mortality odds of alcohol-associated hepatitis returned to drinking ...

Drug addiction is a chronic, often relapsing disorder that affects millions of people worldwide. Despite successful treatment, many individuals struggle to maintain sobriety and may relapse.

A large meta-analysis sheds light on the best antipsychotic maintenance strategy to prevent relapse in clinically-stable schizophrenia — with some unexpected results that have potential implications ...

Damian Bujanda is 17 days sober. He's been in and out of addiction since he was 15 years old. It has been a 28-year struggle that intensified after returning from the Iraq war with post-traumatic ...

Substance use recovery is a life-long process, but environmental triggers, such as alcohol at social gatherings or pain medication advertisements, can put individuals in recovery at risk of relapse.