Learn the role of a sponsor in addiction recovery, including key qualities, responsibilities, benefits, and choosing the right fit in AA or NA.

Though being fifteen years into rock-solid recovery from opioid addiction, I have intimately experienced a wide variety of treatment modalities, many mandated at the time by the medical board and the ...

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished. – Benjamin Franklin September is National Recovery Month. While the term “recovery” can be applied to getting better or improving with regard to a wide ...

One woman knows about substance use disorder all too well. Julianne Griffin shares her fearless story of addiction and how she's helping others through a virtual Taylor Swift-themed recovery group. At ...

“Smoking was my first love,” says Laura Marie, who lit her first cigarette at age 15. Despite seeing the effects of smoking up close — her grandmother died of emphysema, and her sister died of lung ...

With Lent underway, many people are making resolutions for these 40 days. Generally, it’s no secret that millions of Americans, including Catholics, struggle with addictions that often derail their ...

It was a place Angela had been before. The single mother with a long history of methamphetamine addiction was with her parole officer, waiting to hear the results of her latest drug test. It wasn’t ...

Sean "X-Pac" Waltman has had a history of drug addiction and recently opened up about how he was addicted to prescription painkillers, cocaine, and methamphetamine. "X-Pac" had previously revealed ...

HANOVER TWP., Pa. - A new, state-of-the-art facility for mental health and addiction is now open in Hanover Township, Northampton County. Steps to Recovery Lehigh Valley says it's designed to give ...

Jake never made it to rehab. He was packed, ready and determined to get clean after years of struggling with meth. Just one thing held him back: his two German shepherds. No friends or family could ...