For decades, the face of addiction was painted with a broad, mostly male brush. Rough around the edges. Down and out. That narrow image lets a lot of women slip through the cracks, especially ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. It wasn’t until Heather Lococo’s daughter was born with cocaine in her system ...

When she was in her 40s Jenny Teeters had a serious secret drinking problem, but, she says, her success hid it exceptionally well for years. At one point she managed a high six-figure tech job, raised ...

As rates of fentanyl overdoses increase across the country, local addiction recovery providers find ways to start and succeed in substance recovery. Opioid-involved drug overdoses increased by 3% in ...

A paper or lived experience narrative titled “A sibling’s narrative of recovery from addiction trauma and loss in the family” appeared in 2021 in the Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing.

U.S. Representative Erin Houchin (IN-09), alongside Representatives Andrea Salinas (OR-06), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-01), and Troy Carter (LA-02), introduced the bipartisan H.R. 7875, ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a personal story of his own heroin addiction, spiritual awakening and recovery at a conference on drug addiction Thursday and emphasized that young ...

Craig Carton has had a remarkable sports media comeback following prison time in 2019 and 2020 over fraud convictions. The co-host of FS1’s Breakfast Ball has been open about how gambling addiction ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Five people celebrated a different kind of graduation Wednesday at the 61st District Court in Grand Rapids, marking their completion of an 18 to 24-month program designed to ...

Four core aspects of recovery that are essential for addressing addiction. Many people see addiction . . . as a character flaw or a bad choice. They don’t recognize that addiction is in fact a chronic ...

It wasn’t until Heather Lococo’s daughter was born with cocaine in her system that she knew she had to receive treatment. Losing her kids to foster care was the turning point for her. She started 29 ...