Beyond thumbsucking, the following lessons can apply to other problematic childhood habits like nail-biting, hair-pulling or twisting, whining, shouting, biting, and hitting. They also apply to ...

Organizers and some attendees of the National Recovery Walk event pose for a picture at South Park on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. Recounting his journey from Lansing Correctional Facility to mayor of ...

Lessons from Laura: Book One — ‘The Knock on the Door’, a story of love, loss and a fight against addiction. Pathroot is an online support program that addresses a critical need to provide resources ...

One of our most urgent national problems is addiction to drugs and alcohol. It now kills about a quarter-million Americans a year, leaves many others homeless and causes unimaginable heartache in ...

Much of the conversation around addiction swings between two worldviews. On one side is the belief that addiction is a brain ...

BEAUTIFUL BOY: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction. By David Sheff. Houghton Mifflin. 326 pages. $24. This prosperous California family, so seemingly like millions of other families, had a ...

The terms “addiction” and “dependence” can seem similar, but they are different. Dependence occurs when the body physically relies on a drug. Addiction involves changes in behavior. A person with an ...

What helps kids to cease sucking their fingers or thumbs? The principles that work can also prove useful for grownups who want to overcome mistaken-things-we-put-in-our-mouths, like excessive food, ...