A local program suggests the answer to breaking the stigma over addiction recovery and mental illness may be just to go fishing.

People going through life transitions, such as loss of home or family ties, and mental illnesses suffer a loss of identities. The change involves a sense of loss of continuity and confusion about ...

Trauma damages faith and identity, often resulting in coping mechanisms like addiction. Community support and purpose fight ...

More than 1 in 10 adults in the United States believe they had a substance use problem at some point, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Among these adults, ...

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 ...

There is a lot of focus on the opioid epidemic and its fatal fallout. But opioids are only part of the problem. The larger ...

What queer identity and addiction have in common is that one can choose to be closeted about both. That was my lived experience until I was 40. Today, I advocate for openness around sexuality, but ...

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 ...

“I’ve dealt with addiction, and music gives me a sense of purpose, a reason to wake up in the morning.” This inspiring quote comes from the WeAreTheMusicMakers Reddit page, a sub-Reddit for music ...

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 ...

A Moate-based psychotherapist who was in the hold of an "overwhelming gambling addiction" for more than a decade is now ...

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 ...