A man in recovery plays basketball as an outlet to help him stay sober. A musician turns to drinking to cope with his mother’s cancer diagnosis. A teacher faces a moral dilemma: Should she punish a ...

Keith Nussbaum as Ray in "Displaced," screening at the Portland Recovery Film Festival. (Bridges to Change) The fourth annual PDX Recovery Film Festival returns to Revolution Hall on Sunday, Sept. 29.

The coal power and auto industries saw the EPA drop the scientific and legal basis used for regulating greenhouse gases for the last 15 years on Thursday. House Bill 5214 would require drug tests, ...

BRATTLEBORO — A documentary being shown locally is meant to highlight the work that happens when people put down substances and begin to recover. "What we do is so often misunderstood or misconstrued, ...

What happens when the party is over? There are plenty of movies that show the "before" but only a few that get into the dirty side of addiction. These movies don't always have happy endings, either, ...

Dingle and colleagues explored the influence of addiction and addiction treatment on identity. They interviewed 21 people in a treatment community and found two distinct pathways, from pre-addiction ...

Every day, drug and alcohol addiction shatters families, destabilizes neighborhoods, derails careers, and steals the lives of countless Americans. This National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery ...

People addicted to drugs or alcohol are stigmatized in our society, which can impede their recovery. We cannot readily understand how they are thinking and why they are making the unhealthy choices ...

House Bill 2767 laid the groundwork for Oregon to establish and support recovery schools across the state. Now, they’re serving students. Oregon teens are facing a dangerous mix of challenges — they ...