most medical schools provide only minimal substance abuse education to students and residents in primary care," said Barbara Schindler, MD, professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at Drexel University ...

Amid a rise in fatal fentanyl overdoses, a San Diego County task force convened to identify substance abuse prevention ...

San Diego County adopts a new substance abuse prevention plan for schools, led by DA Summer Stephan, integrating five drug ...

A substance abuse or addiction counselor will perform assessments, create treatment plans, give referrals, provide education and counseling, and be on hand to help in a crisis. A counselor also ...

To facilitate the development of the curriculum, the team has been awarded a grant of $900,000 from the Substance Abuse and Mental ... substance use disorder education into the general medical ...

Expanded treatment options, increased naloxone distribution and targeted education campaigns likely led to a 37% reduction in ...

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 ...

Substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors ... the incorporation of behavioral health into the field is upping the ante for education. "The scope of the work has widened," he says ...

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 ...

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 ...

Former One Direction musician Liam Payne died due to multiple traumas and internal and external bleeding caused by a fall, an Argentine prosecutors' office said on Thursday, revealing the first ...