Mentoring can be a significant part of an addiction recovery program. Source: Mabel Amber/Pixabay A recovery coach is an individual who provides mentoring and support services to someone early in ...

Learn about the Recovery Coach Academy in Swampscott, a free program helping community members struggling with addiction. Funded by opioid abatement settlement money.

Birmingham-based Grief and Trauma Coach and the founder of “Love Life Coaching,” Lucy Cole, has dedicated to transforming her ...

Addiction is a devastating and heartbreaking condition. For those struggling with substance abuse, or the loved ones who witness their descent, it can be an endless battle with the darker sides of our ...

For high-performing personalities in highly demanding positions, self-care can seem like a chimera—unless leadership creates ...

Former UGA assistant football coach Scott Cochran had kept his yearslong addiction to painkillers a secret. Then one April day in 2020, his wife, Cissy, found him lying unconscious. “She found me dead ...

Angelletta Hixon lives up to the shortened name of “Angel” that she goes by, say people who know her. Whether she’s passing out coats, tents and food to people living in homeless encampments, coaxing ...

Addiction science is increasingly looking beyond clinics to technologies we already wear on our wrists. A recent trial ...

In her 2021 book Recovery Allies, author Alison Jones Webb describes the crucial role recovery allies play in addressing addiction in our communities. Jones Webb states that a “recovery ally is a ...

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 ...

After battling opioid addiction, former assistant coach Scott Cochran has found a new purpose and perspective while leading ...