Addiction is affecting the family relationships, mental health and finances of most adults in the U.S., according to a new KFF poll. The findings are the latest to reveal how the worsening substance use crisis is weighing on people’s lives, regardless of whether they’re personally experiencing addiction. More than a quarter (27%) of respondents

  Federal researchers recently found that only about 20 percent of the roughly 2.5 million people with opioid use disorder had received medication treatment, a problem that especially affects Black adults, women and the unemployed. The reasons may be cultural and financial. KFF researchers published some anonymous responses from survey participants who were asked why

    A new study adds to a mounting body of evidence showing that rising alcohol consumption among women is leading to higher rates of death and disease. The report, published Friday in the journal JAMA Health Forum, examined insurance claims data from 2017 to 2021 on more than 14 million Americans ages 15 and

  It’s wine time. Beer Thirty. Happy hour. Five o’clock somewhere. Maybe it’s also time to rethink drinking? Moderate drinking was once thought to have benefits for the heart, but better research methods have thrown cold water on that. “Drinking less is a great way to be healthier,” said Dr. Timothy Naimi, who directs the

  Substance abuse prevention efforts have traditionally addressed youth substance use by directly targeting youth’s norms and behaviors. More recently, parent or family focused prevention interventions have demonstrated adolescent decreases in the likelihood of initiating use, declines in the rate of growth, and increases in positive outcomes into adulthood, including increased socioeconomic success, reduced mental

  The annual number of alcohol-related deaths from 2020 through 2021 exceeded 178,000, according to recently released data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: more deaths than from all drug overdoses combined. An analysis by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism shows that people over 65 accounted for 38 percent of