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 ...

Joe Huisman’s battle with addiction started in his teens, pulling him into a vortex of substance abuse that seemed inescapable. He began smoking marijuana at sixteen and was introduced to cocaine at ...

In a striking turn of events, comedian Artie Lange, renowned for his roles on the Howard Stern Show and Mad TV, has re-emerged in the public eye, showcasing a dramatic transformation following years ...

Deep in the Big Book, the operations manual of Alcoholics Anonymous, a too-often-overlooked point is highlighted. "We aren’t a glum lot," the passage from the 1939 book says of the earliest AAs. "If ...

Maia Szalavitz is the author, most recently, of "Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction." When I kicked cocaine and heroin in 1988, I was told that there was ...

The jam band frontman — who struggled with opioid addiction for years — opened Divided Sky, a residential recovery center, in Ludlow, Vt., late last year Danny Clinch Trey Anastasio is giving back in ...

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 ...