Every day, drug and alcohol addiction shatters families, destabilizes neighborhoods, derails careers, and steals the lives of countless Americans. This National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery ...

Becky Bernhardt vividly remembers bawling on the phone years ago as she spoke with her son, who was struggling with homelessness and addiction. On Wednesday evening, she stood in front of a room full ...

Alcoholism/drug addiction is an illness with a ripple effect, affecting everyone in its devastating path. Personally, it invaded my life through parental addiction, then through my own. With over 20 ...

Every day Americans are educated over and over again about the meaning of recovery: celebrities tour the country describing their miraculous redemption due to 12-step rehab; columnists instruct ...

There are few experiences more grueling and painful than watching a parent, a brother or sister, or especially a child careen off the rails because of alcohol or other drug addiction. Having a loved ...

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 ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. The disease of addiction, also known as substance use disorder, is a crisis that touches families in every community and neighborhood in our Nation. 48.4 million ...