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 ...

I have a different take on 12-step programs than Mr. Kowalski (“Be smart about drug policy,” Our Readers’ Views, Oct. 4). In rare occasions a judge might sentence a DUI case to Alcoholics Anonymous.

Some sources for this story are recovering alcoholics and drug addicts who participate in 12-step programs that emphasize anonymity for their members. Their identities have been obscured. J. has been ...

The 12-step method that began with Alcoholics Anonymous is a form of mutual aid that can help movement organizers take better care of each other. The Trump administration is stoking fear by mass ...

A few weeks ago, while listening to the radio, I heard about a podcast called The 13th Step. As a social psychologist, I was familiar with the 12-step program advocated by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) to ...

CUSHING, Okla. — "A friend of mine introduced me to cocaine and everything just blew up from there," said Geoff, a recovering addict. Whether the addiction takes off with illegal drugs like Geoff or ...

Chynna Phillips is embracing change one step at a time. Phillips, 56, admitted after some deep reflection that it was time for her to join a 12-step program, and she chose Al-Anon. "So the rumors are ...

Pause a While's 12-step meetings are usually in the former dining hall of a sailing camp on the elbow of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. It holds four to five meetings a day for local residents. On Monday, ...

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 ...