With a recent rise in substance use disorders, experts provide key insights about addiction as well as treatment options. In a recent Michigan Medicine webinar, experts from the University of Michigan Addiction Center break down facts about addiction and recovery. In the article below are eight facts about addiction and recovery, along with key takeaways from Monwabisi Makola, Ph.D., an addiction psychiatry fellow at the U-M Addiction Center, Emily Smith, M.S.W., a clinical social worker at the University of Michigan Addiction Consult Team and Mark Ilgen, Ph.D., associate director for Adult Research at the U-M Addiction Center. They were also joined by Mark Hassett, a successful entrepreneur and musician from Southeast Michigan who’s in recovery and spoke about his own experiences recovering from an alcohol use disorder.
