Chicago, March 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Timberline Knolls, a leading treatment center for women and adolescent girls who are struggling with eating disorders, trauma, substance use disorders, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

According to the National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services, the 12 Step model is used in approximately 74% of treatment centers. Whether the primary model or one among several, the 12 Step ...

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 ...