Many years ago, not long after I discovered that my daughter was addicted to heroin, I joined a support group for families of people with substance use disorder. I was desperately looking for ways to ...

An Arkansas family is suing a multitude of video game companies, including Activision Blizzard, Microsoft, and Epic, accusing them of enabling game addiction in minors. According to a report from ...

A 24% increase in overdose deaths has a lot of people in King County sounding some alarms. The question then becomes: Are addiction services actually working? And how is the King County Council ...

I have only been a mom for a year, so most of my career I’ve been telling clients, “I’m not a parent, but I have great ones…” Then I insert an appropriate parenting suggestion. Usually, this had to do ...

There’s a big difference between helping your child and enabling their behaviors. When I discovered my son had an alcohol addiction, I was a single parent of two teenaged children. The first time I ...

SAN FRANCISCO – The toll of homelessness and decades of substance abuse is evident in Bruce and Lisa, two clients of San Francisco’s controversial Managed Alcohol Program, from her missing teeth and ...

As humans, we are innately driven to protect our loved ones. Although this intrinsic characteristic typically shields our kin and spouses from life-threatening situations, when substance use is ...

Dear Annie: As a 31-year-old female who is a sober alcoholic, I’d like to offer my advice to parents of alcoholics who put their foot down by telling their grown “children” to either stop drinking and ...