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Jan. 15, 2025 – Yet, the reality is that the majority of people experiencing addiction—whether to alcohol, opioids, stimulants, or cannabis—don’t seek treatment.
There are many reasons someone may choose to not initiate care, including a fear of judgment from their family and community to simply not being ready to ask for help.
This is why it’s important to normalize conversations around substance use, to learn about the science of addiction and to support the lived experience of those in recovery.
In a recent Michigan Medicine webinar, experts from the University of Michigan Addiction Center break down facts about addiction and recovery.
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., the director of the University of Michigan Addiction Treatment Services.
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.
