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

Enables alcoholics and addicts to work the 12 steps of recovery in 90 days with inspiration from the Five Books of Moses CLEVELAND, UNITED STATES, January 17, 2024 ...

Spiritual awakening is an explicit goal of 12-step recovery programs, which ask people seeking help with addiction to accept that a higher power exists. For members of The Church of Jesus Christ of ...

Recovery resources are disproportionately concentrated in urban centers. Surrounding communities like Oak Ridge face the same addiction pressures.

Kathleen Ratcliff, executive director for Upstream Prevention, discusses substance use disorder during the “Responding to Addiction” workshop in 2024 at the Greenwood Public Library. Upstream ...

“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 ...

Andre Podpolucha, a former drug addict who went through Step Denver, is now the director of operations for both Step Denver and Step Springs. He credits the program with helping him claim victory over ...

It was Nov. 3, 2020, when Derrik Bunyon walked into Step Denver. He'd spent much of the previous two years living on the streets of the Mile High City, using alcohol and drugs to numb the pain after ...

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. Not long ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s history of heroin addiction alone would likely have disqualified him from ...