When it comes to drug and alcohol addiction, it can take several attempts for a person in recovery to achieve long-term sobriety. So when comedian Joe Huisman — a former addict himself — Comedian Ben ...

In a striking turn of events, comedian Artie Lange, renowned for his roles on the Howard Stern Show and Mad TV, has re-emerged in the public eye, showcasing a dramatic transformation following years ...

Deep in the Big Book, the operations manual of Alcoholics Anonymous, a too-often-overlooked point is highlighted. "We aren’t a glum lot," the passage from the 1939 book says of the earliest AAs. "If ...

Maia Szalavitz is the author, most recently, of "Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction." When I kicked cocaine and heroin in 1988, I was told that there was ...

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 ...

It's time for America to end its black-and-white thinking about addiction and recovery, according to Johns Hopkins professor Hanna Pickard. Traditional approaches in the U.S.—framing addiction as ...