“Smoking was my first love,” says Laura Marie, who lit her first cigarette at age 15. Despite seeing the effects of smoking up close — her grandmother died of emphysema, and her sister died of lung ...

The national conversation around addiction recovery often focuses on voluntary treatment and individual choice. While those ...

Lev’s reporting has explored Americans’ deadly hostility to addiction medications, subpar treatment offered in jails and prisons, shifts in the illicit drug supply and consumption behavior, ...

A local program suggests the answer to breaking the stigma over addiction recovery and mental illness may be just to go ...