An initiative through the state has free resources that are used to help spread the love during the holiday season.

In 12-step groups, addicts must acknowledge the powerlessness, unmanageability, and denial that have impacted them. This is known as the “first step” in the 12 steps. It’s vital for addicts to reach ...

My previous posts have focused on recognizing and preventing excessive substance use, with an emphasis on providing the latest information about my special interest – cannabis (see 20 Questions to ...

CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. (LEX 18) — For more than a decade, Jason Roop was just another face you may have tried to ignore. A drug addiction sent him to the streets and, one time, even got him kicked out of ...

Who doesn’t like receiving a compliment? Well, your addict/alcoholic in recovery is no different. True, it might be a tad harder to come up with one at first, but you gotta try. No one but another ...

It's time for America to end its black-and-white thinking about addiction and recovery, according to Johns Hopkins professor Hanna Pickard. Traditional approaches in the U.S.—framing addiction as ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (PIX11) — He was a homeless drug ...

A woman who overcame addiction and now mentors recovering drug users and alcoholics has shared how sobriety changed her life. Jess Fry, 42, from Robinswood, spent a month at the residential ...

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. Not long ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s history of heroin addiction alone would likely have disqualified him from ...