Mentoring can be a significant part of an addiction recovery program. Source: Mabel Amber/Pixabay A recovery coach is an individual who provides mentoring and support services to someone early in ...

Bilda is a recovery coach. He helps people enrolled in medication-assisted treatment in 11 cities and towns in eastern Connecticut to navigate sobriety and saw 107 clients last year. Bilda acts as a ...

Former UGA assistant football coach Scott Cochran had kept his yearslong addiction to painkillers a secret. Then one April day in 2020, his wife, Cissy, found him lying unconscious. “She found me dead ...

Mike Daly, a peer coach with the Turning Point Center of Rutland, facilitate a recovery group meeting with residents of Marble Valley correctional facility in Rutland on Wednesday, May 29. Photo by ...

Angelletta Hixon lives up to the shortened name of “Angel” that she goes by, say people who know her. Whether she’s passing out coats, tents and food to people living in homeless encampments, coaxing ...

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. Not long ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s history of heroin addiction alone would likely have disqualified him from ...