News from Ireland and Around the World about Addiction Treatment

'Productivity' has become a buzzword with positive connotations – but what happens when getting things done is taken to an extreme?

Getting medication long meant seeing a licensed provider. Now a strategy for evading Covid-19 makes treatment available via the web.

"We believe that if you invest in job opportunities, you get social return," says Stuart Fraser in his Scottish accent, speaking on the phone last Friday.

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. - Christina Pericone said she did everything she could to keep her brother, Travis McClish into things like fishing, music and work. Instead, he fell in and out of a cycle of drug addiction.

While many addiction treatment providers may not feel equipped to deal with the depths of trauma work with patients, Jamie Marich, PhD, LPCC-S, LICDC-CS, REAT, RYT-200, offered a word of caution to NCAD attendees in a Saturday session: Pandora's box is already open.

Like many teenagers, Jonathan Peniket enjoyed buying random player "packs" to build up his team on the Fifa football video game.

Treatments for dozens of people with gambling addictions across Great Britain were paused as NHS staff were redeployed due to coronavirus.

"I just want you guys to know this: you are by far the best chemist that I've been to. I know we are addicts and that, but that doesn't mean we have to be treated like animals, so thanks for being kind with people like us."

The enduring stigma around addiction has long been a problem in our society. But Rachel Bannister writes of her disappointment that this is present even within healthcare services

Sky News was granted rare access to Cocaine Anonymous, a support group where people meet to overcome their dependence on the class A drug. We met two women from different parts of the country who started using cocaine when they were schoolgirls and whose addiction almost cost them their lives. Here are their stories.