Twelve-step programs have millions of recovering members worldwide, yet they’re often dismissed by academics. Why?

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

MORRISTOWN — The 14 men sitting in the front row on the Morristown Green Sunday evening had suffered many hardships on their journey to those seats. Each had battled addiction, with some cutting ...

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 ...