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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 ...

Dingle and colleagues explored the influence of addiction and addiction treatment on identity. They interviewed 21 people in a treatment community and found two distinct pathways, from pre-addiction ...

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 ...

By senior year, at age 17, I was drowning in despair and couldn’t keep going. I swallowed many sleeping pills. I was declared ...