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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At a recent open meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous — the 86-year-old international peer-support recovery program, which opens some ...

Ashley Corum's sister, Rachel, started drinking in eighth grade Almost losing a friendship helped Rachel get her priorities in line The group aspect of AA has helped Rachel stay sober “You have to hit ...

Journalist and person in recovery, Shayla Martin, speaks to various AA members about the growing need for recovery meetings specifically catered to people of color. She speaks with L*, a Black woman ...

According to recent estimates, over two million people are currently in recovery in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) worldwide. This includes about 1.5 million people in the U.S. and over 500,000 people ...

When compared with other active treatment approaches — such as cognitive behavioral therapy — Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)-based interventions performed just as well at reducing drinking intensity, ...

Patrick Garnett spent years fighting a losing battle against crystal meth. He went to hundreds of 12-step meetings, sometimes twice a day, but relapse always followed. Then, about four years ago, an ...

After 20 years of increasingly out-of-control drinking and a family in crisis, I went to my first AA meeting. The father of one of my children reached out to me after my daughter fled to his house in ...

Alcoholics Anonymous saved my life and I don’t care if that makes me a cliché. When I stopped using opioids cold turkey after an addiction in 2017, my life was a mess, I needed a plan, and AA ...