Addiction can affect anyone, regardless of background, education, or income. It often starts subtly—using alcohol to unw ...

ROANOKE, VA – When people picture homelessness or addiction, certain images often come to mind. “What people see are the quote ‘street people.’ They don’t see what’s going on inside of R.A.M. House.

Despite the growing prevalence of addiction among seniors, many cases go undetected even in health care settings where older ...

Experts agree that addiction is a disease, yet the disease model doesn't capture addiction's harmful effects on others.

Are you curious about the world's most unusual habits? People can get hooked on things you might never even consider addictive. While some addictions are widely recognized, there are others that fly ...

Addiction is one of the most intensely studied conditions in modern medicine, yet even with high‑resolution brain scans and genetic tools, scientists still cannot fully explain why some people get ...

Hepatitis C affects about 2.7 million Americans today. Injection drug abuse accounts for a large percentage of this population. Hepatitis C is a chronic infection that causes liver damage in many ...

Working to overcome a history as one of the nation's hardest-hit communities for overdoses, Surry County is launching a comprehensive initiative to identify exactly where people struggling with ...

Generative AI can surprisingly steer people toward an addiction of any kind, either by insidious deceit or via accidental triggering. In today’s column, I examine an important question about the ...