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Journalist and person in recovery, Shayla Martin, speaks to various AA members about the growing need for recovery meetings specifically catered to people of color. She speaks with L*, a Black woman ...

For many in recovery for substance use, the best part of a meeting isn’t the group discussion. It’s the feeling of being together with others who support and understand them.

In 2010, a newly sober 31-year-old Karla Mendez Brada met and fell in love with 40-year-old Eric Earle, a fellow Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) member with 20 years of off-and-on sobriety under his belt.

Every day Americans are educated over and over again about the meaning of recovery: celebrities tour the country describing their miraculous redemption due to 12-step rehab; columnists instruct ...

Brad Pitt discussed the first Alcoholics Anonymous recovery meeting he attended after his tumultuous divorce from Angelina Jolie, telling Armchair Expert host Dax Shepard — who was also at that ...