World Health Organization (WHO) is designating “Gaming Disorder” as a clinically recognizable and significant syndrome in the latest 11th edition of its highly regard International Classification of Disease (ICD-11). You can read more about this […]
Category: Recent Recovery News
These are news items that relate to recovery. If you have any you would like to share, send them to news@quitandrecovery.org.
A new study suggests that about 1.5% of all American deaths in 2016 was related to opioid epidemic. The deadliest year in Vietnam war was in 1968, which was the cause of less than 1% […]
In a bid to reduce nicotine addiction, the Food and Drug Administration is looking to set a maximum nicotine level that would be minimally addictive. You can read more about this initiative at Reuters website […]
Photographer James Nachtwey traveled across United States to capture the effects of opioid addiction in a TIME magazine project called “The Opioid Diaries”. You can check out the project and the photographs on TIME’s website. […]
A National Geographic article explores what science is helping us learn about addiction and the underlying mechanisms that drive it. It also looks into how these new discoveries may help us treat addiction in the […]
An article from Nora’s Blog at National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) talks about utilizing social media and similar forms of citizen science to combat opioid overdose epidemic. You can click here to read the […]
This Scientific American article explores whether defining addiction as a disease may not be a good idea.
The Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission are going after products that may falsely claim to treat addiction to opioids. You can read more about this in The Washington Post’s website.
Dr. Warren Bickel, Director of Addiction Recovery Research Center at Virginia Tech and head of the International Quit & Recovery Registry (IQRR) was interviewed by Recovery Research Institute about IQRR. You can check out the […]
