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Rewiring Your Brain After Addiction

Learn how the brain recovers from addiction. With treatment, support, and new habits, neural pathways heal and healthy function returns.

How To Resist Cravings

Recent scientific research shows how to resist cravings and rebuild a reward system damaged by addiction.

The Collaborative Care Model for Addiction Treatment

When addiction is treated with collaborative care involving a physician, a mental health provider, and a behavioral health provider, sobriety rates skyrocket.

Using Addiction Treatment for Economic Recovery

Dickenson County, Virginia, is tethering economic recovery to substance abuse recovery, reversing the cycle of addiction.

Using Micro Units to Lure Addicts Into Addiction Treatment

The city of Juneau, Alaska, is building 24 tiny homes for patients who enroll in addiction treatment.

The Worst Conceivable Approach to Addiction

First came the freeze in addiction research, then the end of SAMHSA, and now civil commitment of the homeless.