
7 Tips to Stay in Recovery from Substance Use Disorder
The process looks different for everyone but has a common goal.
The process looks different for everyone but has a common goal.
Sampling sobriety can bring a range of health benefits for body and mind.
Here’s how you can evaluate your drinking habits to see if you might want to make a change.
Taking a timeout from alcohol is good for both sexes but may be especially helpful for women.
A unique residential treatment program gave Katelin Hunter a chance to overcome loss, incarceration and substance abuse.
Addiction, Drug Rehabilitation, Families, North Carolina, Patient Stories, Substance Abuse
Mothers struggling with drug addiction and their children find help through the UNC Horizons Program.
Addiction, Drug Rehabilitation, Families, North Carolina, Patient Stories, Substance Abuse
In findings published in the journal Cancer, Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers confirmed the link between alcohol consumption and breast cancer risk in a study in black women. The association has been seen in other studies drawn from majority white populations.
In a new British Medical Journal editorial, UNC School of Medicine researchers and physicians stress the need for better worldwide surveillance of e-cigarette-related burns and better regulation of e-cigarettes to reduce burn injuries.
Dr. Adam Goldstein, who is director of the tobacco intervention programs in the UNC School of Medicine, argues his point in an opinion piece published in the March/April 2015 issue of Annals of Family Medicine.
How can providers best interact with their patients who smoke and support their efforts to become tobacco-free? A new study by researchers from the UNC Department of Family Medicine and the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center represents one of the first efforts to ask this and other critical questions. The study was lead by Jacqueline Halladay, MD, associate professor, Department of Family Medicine.
Although alcohol use disorders are associated with many health problems, including cancers, stroke and depression, fewer than one-third of people with the disorders receive any treatment and less than 10 percent receive medications to help reduce alcohol consumption.
The new protocol helps health care providers determine which patients need hospital admission and those whose needs can be met with outpatient treatment.