How hiking helped Chelle transform from being a ‘functioning alcoholic’ and climb out of addiction

An Albany woman has plumbed the lowest depths and climbed high peaks in a battle with the bottle. Key points: Chelle Fisher battled alcohol and drug addiction from her teens…

Telehealth treatment for addiction was a success. Now it’s in jeopardy.

Telemedicine isn’t supposed to take place in person. But that’s the conundrum that one addiction treatment startup confronted this month, as states end flexible telehealth rules put in place during…

UM’s Online Addiction Studies Certificate Filling Critical Counselor Shortages

MISSOULA – For University of Montana university student Amanda Martinez, the choice to research habit counseling was each educational and deeply individual. Recovering from drug habit, Martinez required to use…

Dual action of ketamine confines addiction liability

Bellone, C., Loureiro, M. & Luscher, C. Drug-evoked synaptic plasticity of excitatory transmission in the ventral tegmental area. Cold Spring Harb. Perspect. Med. 11, a039701 (2021). Di Chiara, G. et…

Science Gallery exhibition uses art to explore addiction writ large

To recognize the “HOOKED” exhibition at Science Gallery Atlanta is to start out at the stop. A big statue at the gallery exit is included with browsing luggage, vape pens,…

Telehealth by phone & video proves a lifeline for veterans with opioid addiction

For people with opioid addiction, many hurdles stand in the way of finding productive remedy – and COVID-19 could have designed it more difficult. But with widespread implementation of telehealth,…