Dr. David Brendel answers the question: 'Substance Abuse And Depression?' — -- Question: What is the relationship between depression and substance abuse? Answer: There is a very close ...

A common perception among many Californians is that substance abuse is a chief cause of people losing their housing and living on the streets. But research debunks this myth. Findings from the recent ...

The state of Ohio is providing $20 million to begin a statewide study of the root causes of mental illness and addiction, with the effort led by Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center and ...

Recent reports suggesting that drug busts cause drug overdoses to spike not only rely on faulty data -- but faulty logic. The real cause of overdose deaths is lax enforcement and successful drug ...

25% of Americans (70 million people) admitted they use illicit drugs, according to the most recent National Survey on Drug Use. 48.7 million people nationwide struggle with substance abuse according ...

President Trump is signing an executive order that officially designated fentanyl as a "weapon of mass destruction," saying ...

The existentialist psychologist Viktor Frankl has famously argued that absence of meaning in life leads people to boredom, which they try to mitigate with alcohol and drugs. If Frankl is right, an ...

A common perception among many Americans is that substance abuse is a chief cause of people losing their housing and living on the streets. But research debunks this myth. Findings from the recent ...