At the height of her addiction to heroin, Tracey Helton Mitchell lived in an alley and sold her body. Now she works as an addiction specialist... An Addict, Now Clean, Discusses Needle Exchanges And ...

CASPER - Thomas Willson used homemade needles, passed from prisoner to prisoner, to shoot up drugs at Arizona State Penitentiary. The drugs he could find were methamphetamine and heroin. And he could ...

Hometown Heroes is an occasional series profiling those dedicated to giving back to their communities in Volusia and Flagler counties. Katherine Russell wanted to die. The opioid addict was done with ...

Carren Clem doesn't come across as a methamphetamine addict. Clean for more than six years, she has a healthy glow and talks about nurturing her baby daughter.

Readers react to a guest essay critical of the concept of codependency and tough love. To the Editor: Re “No, Love Doesn’t Make You an Enabler,” by Maia Szalavitz (Opinion guest essay, July 10): Tough ...

I got wind of an ex-addict doing breathwork with people at various rehabs with supposedly rave results. His name is Nathaniel V. Dust and he is not your typical hippie weirdo. Far from it. When I ...

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I got wind of an ex-addict doing breathwork with people at various rehabs with supposedly rave results. His name is Nathaniel V. Dust and he is not your typical hippie weirdo. Far from it. When I ...