What Are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)? Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can potentially cause trauma. ACEs aren’t specific. They can include any distressful event between birth and age 17.

In talking with fellow clinicians about addiction, the one view that I encounter most frequently is this: Addiction is a trauma response. That is to say, if someone has an addiction (to alcohol, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — NBC4 is proud to sponsor the 2025 ACEs, PACEs and Addiction Summit, presented by Franklin County Public Health, on Monday, July 21, 2025, at the Quest Conference Center in ...

When my son was born, I made a promise to myself and to him: the cycle of trauma and addiction stops now. I was 12 years sober at the time. The path that got me there had been filled with abuse, shame ...

The fourth step in Alcoholics Anonymous requires participants to take a “moral inventory” of the problems their substance use has caused in their lives before asking God to remove their “defects of ...

Most people entering addiction treatment have a story that started years before their first drink or drug use. Research ...