Every September, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) sponsors National Recovery Month to increase awareness and understanding of mental health and substance use disorders. National Recovery Month honors those in recovery from mental health and substance use disorders, and hopes to reduce the stigma attached to such disorders. This national observance, held every September, aims to educate Americans that treatment for substance use and mental health disorders is available and recovery is possible. National Recovery Month spreads awareness that treatment is effective, prevention works, and people can, and do, recover from substance use and mental health disorders. [...]

CHARM, or Children And Recovering Mothers, is a Chittenden County-based group Dr. Anne Johnston helped create when she and her colleagues noticed they needed a more holistic approach to helping treat addicted expecting mothers.

Researchers at Cardiff University have discovered a new treatment for cocaine addiction that involves erasing the memories associated with taking the drug.

Treating rats with a compound that blocks TrkB receptors in the brain's reward system was found to reverse signs of cocaine dependency, researchers report.

Bradford Regional Medical Center and Olean General Hospital will continue the series of Community Breakfasts — this time on the topic, “addiction...it’s not a choice.”

A gala in Portsmouth has just wrapped up, raising money to provide financial help for service members who struggle with substance abuse.

Macklemore and President Obama talked about drug addiction during the president’s weekly address. Macklemore has been open about his struggles — being arrested at 15 and ending up in King County Juvenile Drug Court.

One of Minnesota’s last remaining sober schools is expanding its support services for recovering drug addicts from classrooms to cha

President Barack Obama discusses how to treat a national health epidemic.