What Recovery Month Means to Me as an Adult Child of an Alcoholic

 HuffingtonPost  9/6/17  Tolstoy began Anna Karenina with the much quoted, “all happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” I am not sure that applies to [...]

As most of you know, I am the parent of an addicted loved one.  It wasn’t too long ago when my husband and I didn’t know what to do. where to turn or how to manage.  It was absolutely [...]

One of the major misconceptions out there about people in recovery is that we hate drinking and drugs. Au contraire! We simply learned that we can’t do it responsibly. The fact of the matter is [...]

Monitoring the Future (MTF) is an annual survey of 8th, 10th, and 12th graders conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, under a grant from the National Institute on Drug [...]

To whom it may concern, I want to thank everyone at A Way Out for the help getting me into a treatment center that helped me get clean and sober and the support finding a sober living house so I [...]

Photo: Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff/Boston Globe via Getty Images Fans of the TV show Girls will remember the moment this past season when one of the lead characters, Marnie, discovers that her [...]

The FMLA may help you keep your job if you need to take a leave of absence to get treatment for yourself or a family member. Here’s what you need to know.  The United States does not have a [...]

President Trump says he is ready to declare the nation’s opioid crisis “a national emergency,” saying it is a “serious problem the likes of which we have never had.” [...]

By Christopher Ingraham August 11 A new study published in JAMA Psychiatry this month finds that the rate of alcohol use disorder, or what’s colloquially known as “alcoholism,” rose by a [...]

To All ‘A Way Out’ staff and donors, Thank you so much for supporting me in finding and getting to an addiction treatment program here in Colorado. I was in very critical condition. [...]