The 12-step program aims to help people attain abstinence from substance use disorders or make a behavioral change through peer support. This intervention provides a supportive social network and ...

The secret that tens of thousands of people have used to recovery from drug and alcohol addiction since 1935 has been revealed. The program, which many medical professionals describe as having the ...

In 2002, Dimitri M. was ready to die. He’d been addicted to heroin for over 20 years, and his once-promising artistic life had collapsed into a series of banal pit stops: from the methadone clinic, to ...

Becky Mann, a Morgantown yoga instructor, will lead the Yoga of 12 Step Recovery program at Peaceful Heart Yoga Studio in Franklin. Mann, who has been in recovery for alcohol addiction for the past 10 ...

Some sources for this story are recovering alcoholics and drug addicts who participate in 12-step programs that emphasize anonymity for their members. Their identities have been obscured. J. has been ...

This piece originally appeared on TomDispatch. It was evening and we were in a windowless room in a Massachusetts jail. We had just finished a class — on job interview skills — and, with only a few ...

A haunting writeup in The New York Times Thursday detailed how actor Philip Seymour Hoffman spent his last days after relapsing back into heroin addiction and leaving the home he shared with his ...

Chynna Phillips is embracing change one step at a time. Phillips, 56, admitted after some deep reflection that it was time for her to join a 12-step program, and she chose Al-Anon. "So the rumors are ...

It is with this expectation in mind that we developed our programs to help patients learn about the disease of addiction and the need for an abstinence-based life, understand the principles of ...