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 ...

The first eleven steps in the Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) approach to recovery focus on the individual answering questions about finding freedom from alcohol and other drugs. Even the eighth and ninth ...

Looking back on my experiences with leukemia and with alcoholism, I realized that the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous can be applied to life with cancer. When I went into treatment for alcoholism ...

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 ...

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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 ...

As Sue Ryan's husband's dementia diagnosis progressed, it became obvious that keeping him at home would not be the best choice for his journey. "He was a very social person," recalls ...