All across the country, we root for our favorite teams. As a nation, our allegiance to sports and the ritual of watching them or playing…

Every twenty-nine minutes, a person in the US dies from prescription opioid poisoning. The staff at University of Kentucky’s Albert B. Chandler Hospital—and several others across…

Many of us became acquainted with Hawthorne’s classic The Scarlet Letter in high school (most times in conjunction with Romeo and Julietor another tale that fifteen-year-olds seem to…

Academy Award winner Marlee Matlin took to Twitter on January 10th to commemorate a particularly significant occasion: 30 years, to the day, since she got sober. The…

As a person moves through the stages of addiction treatment, family members and friends are often left with a sense of helplessness. Guilt, resentment, loss,…