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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 ...

Virtually everything has gone virtual during the pandemic, and that includes AA meetings. Alcoholics Anonymous meetings are now on Zoom, and it sounds like that will most likely remain an option even ...

One of many reasons that attendance at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings helps people with alcohol use disorders stay sober appears to be alleviation of depression. Researchers found that study ...

Is America ready to elect a recovering addict as president? How about one who wants to hold 12-step recovery meetings in the White House? Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hopes to be that president, the onetime ...

Reporting from Interstate 10 — I creep through Los Angeles traffic on Interstate 10 toward my destination: an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting a couple hundred miles east on the Arizona border. My goal ...

Alcoholics Anonymous meetings simply don’t get canceled, not during a snowstorm or a heatwave or on holidays like Christmas or Thanksgiving (in fact the holidays are when an AA meeting may be most ...

Alano Club, which has been in Grand Junction for nearly 40 years, hosted its annual Alcathon. The Alca-thon is a marathon of ...

The church will be closed tomorrow, and the drunks are freaking out. An elderly lady in a prim white blouse has just delivered the bad news, with deep apologies: A major blizzard is scheduled to ...

It’s the simple, casual interaction — the chats, the hugs, the certainty of seeing a friend — that Jane misses most. Jane has been a member of Alcoholics Anonymous for almost 33 years. She last went ...

Dealing with addiction can be a lifelong struggle -- but it’s not a battle you have to fight alone. For many people dealing with alcohol addiction, they turn to Alcoholics Anonymous as a first step in ...