The fourth step in Alcoholics Anonymous requires participants to take a “moral inventory” of the problems their substance use has caused in their lives before asking God to remove their “defects of ...

People with addiction are addicted to changing the way that they feel. Both drugs of abuse and addictive behaviors reliably and predictably change the way a person feels by stimulating the reward ...

Early trauma can have a multitude of detrimental effects and consequences—one of which is dysregulated arousal. Traumatic experiences can disrupt the normal functioning of the autonomic nervous system ...

When my son was born, I made a promise to myself and to him: the cycle of trauma and addiction stops now. I was 12 years sober at the time. The path that got me there had been filled with abuse, shame ...

Army veteran Tony Durham Jr. overcomes trauma and addiction to graduate from VSU with master's degree and publish two books ...

Sometimes addiction has more to do with the ability to tolerate day-to-day life without the substance: self-regulation.

LuminaTherapyAlliance, the nation’s leading collective of highly vetted, in-person mental health practices, is proud to ...

U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) reintroduced bipartisan legislation to increase support for children who have been exposed to Adverse ...

St. Clair County Community Mental Health is hosting its fifth annual Recovery Summit Virtual Series throughout September, according to a community announcement. The free, one-hour webinar sessions are ...