I was arrested, relapsed, and hit rock bottom. After getting sober, I rebuilt my life and opened a thriving candle studio in ...

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 ...

Dear Eric: I am in a 12-step program. We have rules about anonymity and confidentiality, specifically that what is shared in a meeting stays at the meeting, and I trust that this applies to ...

Four years ago, I was drinking alone in my apartment, unable to imagine anything beyond survival. Today, I wake up before dawn to run toward a life I once thought was impossible. Recently I ran the ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - Families and friends gathered in Hattiesburg to remember those lost to overdose and encourage those in recovery. James Moore started the “Tribute to Courage And Recovery” ...

As someone who has recently celebrated 16 years of continued recovery, I am asked if there is anything that I wish I could have done differently during my addiction or early on in my recovery. I ...

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 ...

Many of the most inspiring stories to come from the Rx and Illicit Drug Summit are those of people celebrating sobriety. They have lived through the very challenges being addressed. Laura Rogers spoke ...

Ramirez is an associate professor of psychological and brain sciences at Boston University. When philosophers imagined the ship of Theseus, they asked: Can a vessel that has all its planks replaced ...

Hampton is a person in long-term recovery, an author, and a national recovery advocate. The fluorescent lights of the detox unit hummed, a sterile counterpoint to the chaos that had been my life just ...

‘Nobody knew. Even my wife didn’t know,” the soap star shared.

Pathways to recovery are never going to be in a straight line. You have to be willing to deal with the twists and turns. Source: Jacob Kiesow/UnSplash We have always heard that the quickest route from ...