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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — With the second highest level of untreated addiction in the country, addiction is considered a public health crisis in Oregon. On Wednesday, Oregon Recovers held a press event ...

“Smoking was my first love,” says Laura Marie, who lit her first cigarette at age 15. Despite seeing the effects of smoking up close — her grandmother died of emphysema, and her sister died of lung ...

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 ...

Editor -- With regard to "Sobering look at 12-step addiction programs," (Dec. 29): The modern secular community has become tremendously complex and fluid. Easy solutions to the problem of identity are ...

This 70-minute audio program focuses on leading edge techniques to release habitual behavior, and features what some have called one of the most remarkable segments ever spoken by Abraham in a ...