Women speak out about their experiences with addiction in hopes to educate parents.

Acupuncture interns provide relief for chronic pain patients.

The White House said U.S. drug strategy should focus more on treating addiction and less on imposing harsh prison sentences. 

Tinisha Murray started a business to give a helping hand to those re-entering society, after battling addiction, or incarceration, or other such obstacles.  Her program provides a glowing array of options for a second chance.  

Daniel Keith battles bipolar depression and substance abuse.  Having both a mental illness and substance abuse issue is often termed "dual diagnosis."  Daniel speaks to others about his experience with dual diagnosis, hoping to offer hope and understanding. 

The father of a Miami teen who went missing over a month ago pleaded for help in finding her. According to NBC 6 Miami, Alejandro Flores passed out flyers, pleading for the safe return of his 13-year-old daughter, Alexandra Flores.[...]

ProjectKnow.com offers a library of information about alcohol and drug abuse, addiction, and recovery. According to SF Gate, this new website hopes to answer the hard questions about drug and alcohol abuse, while this new website is intended to further ProjectKnow.com’s goal of educating people about causes, effects, symptoms, and treatments for drug and alcohol abuse and addiction.

A colorful banner outside a church in Oklahoma catches attention, but it is not a banner to promote a new sermon series or a children’s activity, but instead it is a banner to advertise help for those with addiction. According to Tulsa World.com, faith communities have known there are people sitting in their pews struggling [...]

One man faces charges for theft and drug possession after cops found him running a “phony rehab home.” According to CBS Chicago, Andrae Griffin claimed to be the president of an Oxford House rehabilitation home for recovering drug addicts. When police arrived with a search warrant, they found Griffin smoking crack, and they found a [...]

The Camp Recovery Center, located in the Santa Cruz Mountains, added acupuncture to its treatment regimen. Several alternative therapies have been added to the traditional substance abuse treatment, in hopes to provide a holistic approach to treatment that meets a wide variety of client needs and preferences. According to PRWeb, The Camp encourages clients to [...]

The tiny African island of Zanzibar struggles with heroin addiction, and many people are addicted to heroin that is imported from Asia. Treatment options are limited here, but some recovering addicts have reached out to help others. According to Voices of America, addicts gather outside of Stone Town, Zanzibar to talk about what is like [...]

New research from Johns Hopkins suggests that providing sober living contingent on staying clean after detoxification for inner city opiate abusers reduces their chances for relapse within 6 months. Relapse rates for people leaving detox centers is 65-80% within the first month, but sober living along with intensive outpatient therapy increases the chance for abstinence [...]

Dragonfly Transitions, a sober-living group in Oregon, gets a weekly dose of the mountains, where many of the participants focus on snowboarding as well as their recovery. According to KVAL CBS 13, mentor Kenny Benson said, “Most of our students have a high level need for excitement and adventure. It’s probably a lot of the [...]

Margaret Floyd is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, writer, and real food advocate. She’s has been on the pursuit of the ideal nutritious and delicious way of eating for the better part of her adult life. Margaret said, “I love food and everything about it: growing it, cooking it, eating it, healing with it, talking [...]

Comedian Artie Lange opens up about his extended stay in a rehabilitation center. The actor/comedian has appeared in numerous films, but may be best known as Howard Stern’s sidekick. According to KSN.com, Lange has come clean about his road to recovery, hoping that he has finally put his drug-fueled past behind him after several months [...]