As cannabis becomes more potent and widely used in the United States—especially among young adults—concerns about cannabis use disorder are growing. More than 16 million Americans meet the criteria, ...

Approximately 49 million people in the U.S. population aged 12 or older had a substance use disorder in 2021—and most went without treatment. That amounted to 17.3% of the population living with these ...

Carrum Health launched a substance use disorder treatment program for employers a year ago and has now expanded it to include cannabis, cocaine and methamphetamine as employer demand surges. This ...

Struggling with a substance use disorder is never easy, and is even more difficult to overcome without substantial help from others. One reason substance use can be so challenging is that many people ...

Since President Donald Trump issued a July 2025 executive order aimed at “ending crime and disorder on America’s streets,” national attention has increasingly focused on involuntary treatment as a ...

The Beacon ACT Clinic, which stands for Access, Connection, Transition, is in its second year of operation at UAB. It essentially acts as an “urgent care” or “bridge clinic” for patients struggling ...

For as long as the federal government has worked to support substance use treatment, it has operated on a simple premise: Addiction medicine’s objective is to help people using drugs stop — completely ...

Substance use can escalate from a casual weekend binge to a severe problem in just a few days. Here’s how technology is making a difference. While each story of substance use disorder, or SUD, is ...

OUD, which is the third most prevalent substance use disorder worldwide, affected an estimated 3.7% of US adults (9,367,000) in 2022 and caused 53,774 deaths in the US in 2024. Medications for opioid ...

Nearly eight out of 10 people entering the North Carolina state prison system in fiscal year 2021-22 had a substance use disorder in need of treatment, according to a report from the Department of ...

Pyramid Healthcare’s inpatient detox and residential treatment program in Charlotte Hall, MD serves adults struggling with alcohol and substance use disorders. We opened our doors more than 20 years ...