According to the National Center for Drug Abuse Statistics, 3.8 percent of American adults abuse opioids each year. Heroin is a drug that comes from a flower, the opium poppy, which usually grows ...

If you plan to use the video "Drug Abuse: Altered States" in this lesson, show the program at this time. Students will draw for groups (7 total). Place individual drug categories on slips of paper ...

Substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors provide treatment and support for those struggling with an addiction to drugs or alcohol, or for those burdened by an eating disorder or a ...

It is more accurate to think of risk factors for the development of substance abuse disorders, rather than direct causes. (There are also factors that protect individuals against addiction.) ...

Editor’s note: This is the first part of a three-part series on trusts for people with substance use disorders. Click here for part two and here for part three. When planning their estates ...

Therapists and clinicians who treat addiction will conduct a comprehensive medical and psychiatric screening and then work to address both a person’s substance abuse or behavioral compulsion as ...

Warning: Spoilers ahead for the plot and ending of The Substance. While Elisabeth ... share the blame for prescription-medication abuse, what appears to motivate their reckless errors comes ...

Here's who gabapentin was originally approved for, what it's used for today and why it's becoming a drug of increasing concern for abuse and misuse. Gabapentin is a prescription medication that ...

Sue has a nightmare that involves a chicken leg that kind of has to be seen to be believed, and the film does suggest addictive behavior and substance abuse in the sense that Elisabeth/Sue cannot ...

If you have five or so hours to spare and a reasonably strong stomach, I’d recommend a double bill of The Substance and A Different Man. They’re both boldly conceived, darkly funny cautionary ...

Her latest film, "The Substance," is about an aging TV star who finds a sinister-looking potion that can give her a younger, more perfect version of herself, but at a terrible price. "I put so ...

The opening couple minutes of The Substance are elegantly efficient — words that don’t much leap to mind during the remaining 138 minutes of this outrageous movie. A decade-spanning montage ...