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 ...

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 ...

Long considered a key component of recovery, 12-step programs are as popular as ever. But that doesn’t mean they work for everyone. When he was 16, he got a keg of beer. “Beer made me cool,” Marlon ...

For people struggling with opioid use, one recovery tool that’s been available for decades is Narcotics Anonymous (NA). This free program provides support in the form of regular group meetings and ...

GASTONIA, N.C. — Neighbors tell Channel 9 several incidents have left them concerned for their safety after a 12-step program moved into a Gastonia neighborhood. Substance abuse advocates say the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...