This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, from NPR West. I'm Arun Rath. Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman died last weekend from an apparent heroin overdose. Since then, many of his fans have been trying to make ...

Charlie Sheen is sharing his full story—not just half. Now that the Two and a Half Men actor is eight years sober, he detailed the biggest lesson he learned from his public downfall and addiction ...

Much of the conversation around addiction swings between two worldviews. On one side is the belief that addiction is a brain ...

Organizers and some attendees of the National Recovery Walk event pose for a picture at South Park on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. Recounting his journey from Lansing Correctional Facility to mayor of ...

Beyond thumbsucking, the following lessons can apply to other problematic childhood habits like nail-biting, hair-pulling or twisting, whining, shouting, biting, and hitting. They also apply to ...

Addiction is one of the most intensely studied conditions in modern medicine, yet even with high‑resolution brain scans and ...

One of our most urgent national problems is addiction to drugs and alcohol. It now kills about a quarter-million Americans a year, leaves many others homeless and causes unimaginable heartache in ...