Twelve-step programs have millions of recovering members worldwide, yet they’re often dismissed by academics. Why?

Spiritual awakening is an explicit goal of 12-step recovery programs, which ask people seeking help with addiction to accept that a higher power exists. For members of The Church of Jesus Christ of ...

“Smoking was my first love,” says Laura Marie, who lit her first cigarette at age 15. Despite seeing the effects of smoking up close — her grandmother died of emphysema, and her sister died of lung ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — It’s the first Sunday of Lent, a time when many Christian believers choose to temporarily give something up for the period between Ash Wednesday and Easter. However, a ...

The fast pace of the modern world leads to significant pressures on leaders, which may result in executive burnout, anxiety, and substance use. This can ...

FARGO (KFGO) – First Step Recovery, a program of The Village Family Service Center, is expanding its substance use treatment services with the launch of a new Adolescent Addiction Recovery Intensive ...

At jail they had someone from a 12-step recovery program assess me. She was 21 or 22 and decided that I was in full relapse and that my life was in danger unless I got treatment. Next morning the ...