By: Lee Holley, LMSW, LCDC, PRSS and Breslyn McCrory, BA Source: northlight/Shutterstock Alcohol consumption and sales in America skyrocketed in 2020. With many restaurants and bars closed or their ...

Alcoholics Anonymous, Al-Anon and other 12-step groups, many of which are locked out of their regular meeting sites because of the coronavirus pandemic, are Zooming along. Zoom, an online meeting app, ...

By: Lee Holley, LMSW, LCDC, PRSS and Breslyn McCrory, BA Source: northlight/Shutterstock Alcohol consumption and sales in America skyrocketed in 2020. With many restaurants and bars closed or their ...

Some sources for this story are recovering alcoholics and drug addicts who participate in 12-step programs that emphasize anonymity for their members. Their identities have been obscured. J. has been ...

The 12-step program aims to help people attain abstinence from substance use disorders or make a behavioral change through peer support. This intervention provides a supportive social network and ...

The latest guidance from the president is to avoid groups larger than ten people. In Ogdensburg, Bill Doyle heads up the Valley Recovery Center. They hold Narcotics Anonymous meetings, Crystal Meth ...

For those in recovery, 12-step meetings are a source of calm and serenity in times of stress. But during the new coronavirus pandemic, access to face-to-face meetings has plummeted. For instance, 40 ...

Allen Castro waited in the parking lot of his Alcoholics Anonymous meeting place. That night, no one would be sitting inside to say the Serenity Prayer and talk about recovery. The coronavirus ...

It was time for the coveted sobriety chips, so Grace snapped on a pair of plastic gloves and kept a bit of distance as she doled out medallions to members who had gone 30, 60 and 90 days without a ...

When I finally knew, beyond a shadow of doubt, that I needed to quit drinking, one of the most difficult things I ever did was to walk into a 12-step meeting. It wasn’t the idea of a meeting I found ...