GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Five people celebrated a different kind of graduation Wednesday at the 61st District Court in Grand Rapids, marking their completion of an 18 to 24-month program designed to ...

Dingle and colleagues explored the influence of addiction and addiction treatment on identity. They interviewed 21 people in a treatment community and found two distinct pathways, from pre-addiction ...

It was the fall of 1971 when Fr. Ed Reading, just ordained a transitional deacon at the age of 25 in the Diocese of Paterson in New Jersey, decided to spend his diaconate year serving in a recovery ...

Addiction recovery advocates are wary that President Donald Trump’s plan for addressing the substance abuse epidemic in the United States won’t sufficiently help the problem without action from ...

MONROEVILLE, Pa. — A first-of-its-kind facility for people recovering from addiction recently opened in western Pennsylvania. It’s within Recovery Centers of America in Monroeville, and it’s already ...

So if addiction is a chronic brain disease and not a matter of willpower, why do the work to get better? Isn’t it pointless? Not so. Addicts start getting better when they take responsibility for ...

When she was in her 40s, Jenny Teeters had a serious drinking problem that she hid behind her professional success. At one point, she managed a high-six-figure tech job, raised two teen girls, ...