Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At a recent open meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous — the 86-year-old international peer-support recovery program, which opens some ...

Long considered a key component of recovery, 12-step programs are as popular as ever. But that doesn’t mean they work for everyone. When he was 16, he got a keg of beer. “Beer made me cool,” Marlon ...

Alcoholics Anonymous saved my life and I don’t care if that makes me a cliché. When I stopped using opioids cold turkey after an addiction in 2017, my life was a mess, I needed a plan, and AA ...

Perhaps most remarkably, the audience extends beyond traditional recovery demographics. According to John Michael, roughly 10% of listeners aren't in AA recovery but participate in other anonymous ...

I recalled this funny but infuriating exchange when I walked into the Portage Recovery Association, which provides a safe, positive environment for members and their families in recovery based on ...

Every day Americans are educated over and over again about the meaning of recovery: celebrities tour the country describing their miraculous redemption due to 12-step rehab; columnists instruct ...

In 2010, a newly sober 31-year-old Karla Mendez Brada met and fell in love with 40-year-old Eric Earle, a fellow Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) member with 20 years of off-and-on sobriety under his belt.

At a recent open meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous — the 86-year-old international peer-support recovery program, which opens some of its meetings to the general public — more than 75 people attended, ...