Whatever the reason for turning to drugs or alcohol was in the first place, the most important thing is that they found the courage and strength to turn their lives around.

The descent into drug abuse and addiction can start in different places and follow different paths. Both men were raised in stable, respectable families. Both were regularly in church and rarely ...

A former heroin addict, the HHS nominee has special insight into how to solve the nation’s drug crisis. Sally Satel sorts the good ideas from the destructive. If Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is confirmed as ...

James Bunster grew up in a well-off family in Smithtown, attended St. Anthony’s High School and went on to the University at Albany. But his life unraveled. Bunster became addicted to drugs and fell ...

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 ...

We live in a world of fast and easy, social-media-fueled diagnosing and pathologizing. There’s an endless stream of popularized acronyms and misleading self-diagnostic memes that confuse and frustrate ...

A lot of the habits we brush off as totally normal are secret addictions you might not even realize you have. Here are the ...