News from Ireland and Around the World about Addiction Treatment

Mental health services in Northern Ireland must be prepared for a coronavirus-linked rise in self-harming, the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych NI) has warned.

The severity of lockdown on people suffering from mental health and addiction issues will not be known for a long time to come, it has been warned.

"How could I be an alcoholic? I'm not that guy with the brown paper bag."

The ACT Party wants to take mental health funding away from the Ministry of Health and DHBs and instead channel it to patients and providers through a mental health and addiction commission.

As the Covid-19 crisis puts pressure on outpatient providers to facilitate remote care, some addiction professionals have set aside their skepticism and opened digital care channels

COVID-19 has overshadowed the U.S. opioid crisis, but that doesn't mean opioid addiction has gone away.

Northshore Recovery High School is not your average learning institution by any means.

After my parents' deaths, I found out that they had been harboring a dark secret, a secret that I've taken on the burden of owning now that they're gone.

Decades of freely prescribing sedatives may have opened up a new market for lethal street substitutes now causing devastation in Dundee, it has been claimed.

Only about half of the physicians licensed to prescribe buprenorphine -- an opioid-based medication to treat addiction -- actually prescribe it to patients