Vidya Nair is the clinical director of Casa Flores, a Hanley Foundation program that helps moms rich and poor beat addiction for their babies' sakes.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a personal story of his own heroin addiction, spiritual awakening and recovery at a conference on drug addiction Thursday and ...

For Jane Turner, it started when she was 10 years old. "I began using food to calm myself and push my emotions away," the 62-year-old author told Mamamia. "I'd steal money and nick down to the shops ...

On this day in 1983, Alice Cooper checked out of rehab with a new lease on life. And he's still helping others do the same today.

We don’t usually think of anger and resentment the way we think about drugs or alcohol. But growing evidence suggests that, for many people, the craving for revenge follows the same patterns as ...

In 2011, she was lured into sex work by an elementary school friend who, like MacMillan at the time, was looking to support her dependency. Despite having children and repeated attempts to stay clean ...

A man standing up from a wheelchair prepares to inject himself with a needle on Southampton Street in the Mass. and Cass area of Boston. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) The debate over how to deal with ...

St. Camillus de Lellis (1550-1614) was a priest who spent the majority of his ministry caring for the sick and suffering. However, his early life had a rocky path. He was known to have a bad temper ...

Adam "Pacman" Jones revealed in a recent interview how he was able to beat NFL drug tests when he was playing in the league for the Cincinnati Bengals and other teams. Jones admitted on Deion Sanders’ ...

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Brian Mann is NPR's first national addiction correspondent. Over the past six months, I've been ...