By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and ...

Regaining connection to other human beings is the basis for recovery.

Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order creating the White House Great American Recovery Initiative to coordinate a national response to the disease of addiction across government, ...

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 ...

A new addiction recovery center for women and their children, Fresh Start Family Focused Recovery, has opened in downtown Columbus. The center, run by Volunteers of America, allows women to enter ...

Despite what people may tell you, changing behavior is easy. It’s maintaining change that’s hard—creating new and sustained ways of thinking and behaving. As Mark Twain quipped, “Quitting [smoking] is ...

When the Trump administration cut more than $11 billion in COVID-era funds to states in late March, addiction recovery programs suffered swift losses. An Indiana organization that employs people in ...

You're reading Part 5 of The War on Recovery, a yearlong investigation into how the U.S. denies lifesaving medications to people with opioid addiction. Catch up on ...

Addicts in recovery will eventually feel the pain of loss. The drug of choice is no longer a healthy option for coping and a new one must emerge. In addition, all the time devoted to depending on the ...

Celebrity lives often play out like open books, and while they might seem glamorous on the outside, they are full of very human struggles beneath the surface. Addiction doesn't discriminate, and many ...