Opioid addiction diagnoses rose 33% among people with private insurance from 2022 to 2025, and the biggest group is 41 to 50. Here is what FAIR Health’s new data shows, what it means in Texas, and how treatment fits around a job.
The DEA’s July plan to ban 7-OH never took effect. On October 9, the Justice Department announced a new rule with a new limit, and the earliest it can start is November 13. Here is what changed, what it means in Texas, and what to do if you use 7-OH every day.
A new study in the journal Addiction found 1 in 9 adults over 65 who use cannabis meet the criteria for cannabis use disorder. Most cases are mild. Here are the tells families can see, and what to do.
A month off alcohol does measurable things for your body. But the most useful thing Sober October gives you is information about your drinking. Here is how to read it.
Non-alcoholic beer can hold up to 0.5% alcohol. It helps people cut back, but the taste alone can trigger cravings in recovery. Who it helps, who should skip it.
Americans are drinking less for the first time since the pandemic. Adults 50 to 64 went the other way: heavy drinking rose more than 36% from 2018 to 2024. Why it hits harder after 50, and what to do.
A new Lancet Regional Health study counted every U.S. cancer death caused by alcohol from 1990 to 2023. The total doubled. Under 55, the killer is colorectal cancer in men and breast cancer in women, and 83% of these deaths trace to drinking above the old limits.
The government paid for a study on how much alcohol is safe, then shelved it. Published in June 2026, it found no safe level and a 1-in-25 lifetime death risk at two drinks a day.
Alcohol deaths among women 25-34 rose 255% since 1999 – the steepest rise of any group. Why the same drinking does more damage to women, and what the new federal guidelines quietly removed.
A veterinary sedative is now riding along with fentanyl. Narcan restores breathing but not the sedation, and the withdrawal can put people in the ICU. What to do — and what comes after the hospital.
