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Dozens of residents of Marblehead, Massachusetts, say they were blindsided by a new sober living home that opened in a residential neighborhood about five weeks ago without any notice. They packed a public meeting with leaders from the organization running the home — Vanderburgh House — on Monday evening. “People, I think, really walked away feeling very unsettled,” Maribeth Barrell…

More than seven years after his near-fatal overdose, Lamar Odom has launched Odom Wellness Treatment Centers, a collection of facilities offering rehab programs to those struggling with addiction.

Doctors may be missing patients who are trying to cheat on tests that check if they are taking medication for opioid addiction.

Leaders of a chain of addiction treatment centers in Rhode Island and Massachusetts conspired to defraud patients and insurance companies by cycling people through treatment sessions as short as five minutes but billing for longer ones, federal prosecutors alleged Thursday. The CEO of Recovery Connections Centers of America, Michael Brier, was arrested Thursday morning at his home in Newton, Massachusetts…

Plans for a sober living home in Lynn, Massachusetts, are being met with opposition from parents of students at a nearby elementary school. The convent building at St. Mary of the Sacred Heart Parish is in the works of becoming a recovery facility, being sold to Chelsea’s House. Parents are concerned by the proximity to St. Mary’s Early Education...

During a recent interview on the podcast “Off the Record With DJ Akademiks,” the 63-year-old rapper shared that he was addicted to cocaine, crack, weed, alcohol, and cigarettes “for 18 years straight.”

Flavor Flav got candid about his past battles with addiction during an appearance on the “Off the Record with DJ Akademiks” podcast.

There are 2,290 flags on the campus of Newton-Wellesley Hospital, each representing a life lost to an opioid overdose in Massachusetts in 2021. The annual “Purple Flag Event” is held in remembrance of those lives. Hospital officials also host the event to make it clear that resources and support are available, and say they hope talking about the crisis can…

Vermonters will come together Wednesday evening to remember relatives, friends, and neighbors who died from overdoses. The lawn of the Vermont State House in Montpelier will be the setting for a gathering from 5-7 p.m. on Wednesday August 31, marking International Overdose Awareness Day. In 2021, the Vermont Department of Health recorded a record high number of deaths from overdoses…

Drema Ogletree starts slow when she walks into a room of a psychiatric hospital and introduces herself to a patient beginning to detox from drugs.  “I know you’re not feeling well today,” she begins. “I’m here to help you however you need help.”  Ogletree asks substance use disorder patients only a few questions at first. Little by little, she...

If you’re like me, you probably buy stuff you don’t really need. But you might also have that one thing you can seemingly never resist adding to your cart – that designer purse, limited sneaker release, or hard-to-find collectible. For me it’s records. Why do I feel compelled to stack more vinyl? And does everyone else experience this? “You...

LX News Storyteller Eric Rodriguez can’t stop buying vinyl records. But why? To find out what was behind this compulsion, he spoke to Dr. Stephanie Hartselle, a professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University. She explains why someone might feel drawn to purchase something they don’t need, especially in these stressful times. She also provides some tips to...

Many young women drink mainly at social gatherings or with friends, but a significant number drink alone. Some who drink alone turn to alcohol to deal with negative emotions, and that could signal a risk for alcohol problems when they reach their mid-30s, explains Kasey Creswell, a Carnegie Mellon University psychology professor who studied the behavior.

“I was on top of the world and I ruined it,” the 32-year-old star said in a new interview.

State attorneys in Florida say pharmacy chain Walgreens ignored red flags that signaled the pharmacies were contributing to the opioid crisis. Walgreens stores in the Tampa area had abnormally high numbers of opioid prescriptions and pills distributed, prosecutors say. Walgreens attorneys say the company was misled by pharmaceutical companies like Purdue Pharma about the potency of the drugs.

A statewide public education campaign is grabbing attention and spreading a potentially life-saving message in Vermont, where fatal drug overdoses have risen throughout the coronavirus pandemic.