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 ...

(Reuters Health) - Alcoholics Anonymous and similar 12-step programs can lead to higher rates of continuous abstinence than other addiction treatment approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy, a ...

March 11 (UPI) --Twelve-step programs still work for people trying to recover from alcohol problems, a new analysis has found. A study published Wednesday by the Cochrane Library shows Alcoholics ...

A few weeks ago, while listening to the radio, I heard about a podcast called The 13th Step. As a social psychologist, I was familiar with the 12-step program advocated by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) to ...

The 12-step method that began with Alcoholics Anonymous is a form of mutual aid that can help movements take better care of ...

In my opinion, treatment requires the full compliment of tried and tested practices over a minimum of 5 years in order to be effective over a lifetime. This article is written in response to the ...

Some sources for this story are recovering alcoholics and drug addicts who participate in 12-step programs that emphasize anonymity for their members. Their identities have been obscured. J. has been ...

Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, Robert Downey, Jr., Britney Spears, the late Whitney Houston and countless numbers of other celebrities have gone through rehab at least once, and each experienced far ...

Becky Mann, a Morgantown yoga instructor, will lead the Yoga of 12 Step Recovery program at Peaceful Heart Yoga Studio in Franklin. Mann, who has been in recovery for alcohol addiction for the past 10 ...

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 ...