Kevin Alter fell into drugs when he was only 17. His journey downhill began during his high school years on Long Island when ...

Hayden Panettiere has been acting since she was in diapers, and now she's telling the journey behind the scenes, including ...

Hunter Biden admitted during a podcast interview with Candace Owens that he was a “crack addict,” reflecting on years of ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Almost 21 million Americans struggle with substance abuse, but only 10% of them get treatment. The numbers are even more jarring in Tennessee, which ranks third in the country for ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — A University of Hawaii student turned a corner after escaping a life of addiction, abuse and prison time in exchange for a life of helping others find sobriety. Download the free ...

Take a good look around any major urban area– and now, many rural spaces too– and you’ll see signs of drug abuse and addiction. The Baltimore City Department of Health reports that “In 2023, Baltimore ...

Ira, an older, soft-spoken homeless man, recently went to the Downtown Austin Community Court to see if he was eligible for free housing. One of my friends, a fellow researcher, accompanied him. Ira ...

What Is It Like To Be an Addict? Understanding Substance Abuse, by Owen Flanagan, Oxford University Press, 320 pages, $24.99 Addiction is a problem that defenders of liberty need to face, for if ...

The fourth paragraph of Emily Sayre Smith's author bio is impossible to forget: "She took a gun out of her mouth in April of 1998 and went to an AA meeting. It stuck, so she’s here. 'I can’t tell you ...

The suspected drunk driver accused of mowing down 11 people, killing three, at a Fourth of July celebration on the Lower East Side is a self-described “addict” who painted himself as a well-meaning ...

It’s a recipe that fuels loneliness, anxiety, shame, rejection, and failure — emotions associated with self-medication ...

The Kansas Silver Alert Protocol creates a voluntary process for coordinating efforts between law enforcement agencies, media outlets and other entities when a person 65 years of age or older, or a ...