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, ...

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.

Sometimes people are sober and in recovery from alcohol use disorder (AUD) for several years, but relapse. Why? Alcohol use disorder is a chronic, often relapsing medical condition affecting millions ...

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

An antidepressant deprescribing strategy of slow tapering plus psychological support was as effective as continued treatment to prevent relapse in patients with remitted depression, a meta-analysis ...