The 12-step program aims to help people attain abstinence from substance use disorders or make a behavioral change through peer support. This intervention provides a supportive social network and ...

“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 ...

Damascus Friends Church at 28857 Walnut St. has a chapter of Celebrate Recovery, a national 12-step program. It is Christ-based. At least 100 people are currently going through the many programs ...

Due to the inherent anonymity of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and a host of other 12-step programs that specialize in different forms of recovery, statistics on their scope are somewhat elusive; AA ...

In 2002, Dimitri M. was ready to die. He’d been addicted to heroin for over 20 years, and his once-promising artistic life had collapsed into a series of banal pit stops: from the methadone clinic, to ...