Drug addiction is a chronic, often relapsing disorder that affects millions of people worldwide. Despite successful treatment, many individuals struggle to maintain sobriety and may relapse.

If you're like most people I know who have decided to leave alcohol behind, you’d do just about anything to avoid slipping up. Slip-ups have a bad reputation. We’re taught to equate them with failure, ...

A new study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has discovered a surprising new mechanism in the brain that may explain why people recovering from drug addiction often relapse. Repeated ...

Substance use recovery is a life-long process, but environmental triggers, such as alcohol at social gatherings or pain medication advertisements, can put individuals in recovery at risk of relapse.

Even years after they have recovered, a person who once struggled with alcohol or opioid addiction can relapse - and that relapse is more likely to occur during particularly stressful times. Now, ...