As rates of fentanyl overdoses increase across the country, local addiction recovery providers find ways to start and succeed in substance recovery. Opioid-involved drug overdoses increased by 3% in ...

You're reading Part 5 of The War on Recovery, a yearlong investigation into how the U.S. denies lifesaving medications to people with opioid addiction. Catch up on ...

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 ...

Katelyn Fullbright on the day she graduated from Women in Recovery.Credit...Barrett Emke for The New York Times Supported by By Nicholas Kristof Photographs by Barrett Emke Mr. Kristof is an Opinion ...

Every day, drug and alcohol addiction shatters families, destabilizes neighborhoods, derails careers, and steals the lives of countless Americans. This National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery ...

When the Trump administration cut more than $11 billion in COVID-era funds to states in late March, addiction recovery programs suffered swift losses. An Indiana organization that employs people in ...

Nick Padlo’s addiction to alcohol and drugs didn’t happen overnight. “I was using them as a tool to cope with depression and anxiety,” says the recovered addict and founder of Sophros Recovery in ...

Harlan County, Kentucky, a rural part of the state with high overdose rates, is becoming a model for addiction recovery. The county has implemented recovery programs, drug courts, and transportation ...