Doctors should adopt healthy habits to help encourage the uptake of physical activity and lifestyle medicine programmes in primary care patients, an RCGP workshop heard.

Drug addiction manifests as a compulsive drive to take a drug despite serious adverse consequences. This aberrant behaviour has traditionally been viewed as bad 'choices' that are made voluntarily ...

Offering comprehensive case management, support and advocacy to individuals with behavioral health needs at all points of the justice system continuum. Offering comprehensive case management, support ...

According to the National Center for Drug Abuse Statistics, 3.8 percent of American adults abuse opioids each year. Heroin is a drug that comes from a flower, the opium poppy, which usually grows ...

Substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors ... the incorporation of behavioral health into the field is upping the ante for education. "The scope of the work has widened," he says ...

A substance abuse or addiction counselor will perform assessments, create treatment plans, give referrals, provide education and counseling, and be on hand to help in a crisis. A counselor also ...

To facilitate the development of the curriculum, the team has been awarded a grant of $900,000 from the Substance Abuse and Mental ... substance use disorder education into the general medical ...

Schools can implement comprehensive prevention programs that include substance abuse education, peer support groups, and ...

Therapists and clinicians who treat addiction will conduct a comprehensive medical and psychiatric screening and then work to address both a person’s substance abuse or behavioral compulsion as ...

Holly Geyer, an addiction medicine specialist and the lead physician of the Mayo Clinic opioid stewardship program in Arizona, explains that in an effort to help combat opioid-related drug abuse ...

Former One Direction musician Liam Payne died due to multiple traumas and internal and external bleeding caused by a fall, an Argentine prosecutors' office said on Thursday, revealing the first ...