Kevin Alter fell into drugs when he was only 17. His journey downhill began during his high school years on Long Island when he and his friends got some cocaine. He couldn’t stop the first time he ...

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A former Lexington addict has developed a new addiction recovery program to help those trying to get sober. Jason Roop got sober, earned his Ph.D., got married, and founded a new addiction recovery ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — He was a homeless drug addict who’s not only been clean and sober for nearly a quarter-century but he’s ...

St. Louis resident Justin Smith had been using narcotics since age 14, but has now been clean for over a year after most recently being addicted to fentanyl, he told Fox News in a Wednesday interview.

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 ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX18) — On Saturday, Recovery Cafe in Lexington brought awareness to the need for resources for those recovering from addiction. Highlighted at the event was the need for housing as a ...

Just before the COVID-19 pandemic sent the world into lockdown in 2020, Niles Haas reached out to his family for help. They did not have much of a relationship — he had struggled with addiction for ...

Though it doesn’t make headlines, many people die daily and some of them by suicide in the form of a drug overdose, alcoholism or just plain self inflicted permanent damage where they just can’t take ...

"Once an Addict, Always an Addict." I'm Dr. Adi Jaffe and I consider myself an ex-addict. Why? Because I no longer buy into the OAAA ideology. Despite the fact that I struggled with meth addiction for ...