Consumer Health: Addiction and recovery

September is National Recovery Month, a national observation in partnership between the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and Faces& Voices of Recovery. This is a good time to learn more about addiction and recovery. Drug addiction Drug addiction, also called substance use disorder, is a disease that affects a person's brain and behavior, and leads to an inability to control the use of legal or illegal drugs. Substances such as alcohol, marijuana…
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