B.C. is facing a toxic drug crisis, however, forcing people into involuntary treatment will cause more harm than good.

Rutgers University Sociology Professor Emerita Patricia Roos didn’t hesitate to include addiction as a cause of death in the ...

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Growing awareness of how addiction and trauma are intertwined has birthed a new generation of treatment strategies ... taking drugs—over planning a future that seems either uncertain or unlikely ...

A clinician will also gauge the severity of a patient’s addiction, and their desire to stop, before devising a treatment plan. What is the best form of treatment for addiction? Many therapists ...

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Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown has backed down from an effort started by her predecessor to disperse addiction treatment services ... by businesses to oppose the plan. The administration had in recent ...