“Sorry for the mess,” first-time author James Frey mutters, picking up empty beer bottles at the friend’s house in Laurel Canyon where he is staying. Traces of leftover food are splayed on the dining ...

From my seat as a newspaper reporter covering the courts, it often seems that few violent crimes would be committed absent addictions. Many times, I have seen a killer come to court looking healthier ...

Marion Winik is the author of "First Comes Love" and, most recently, "The Glen Rock Book of the Dead." Though a youthful alcoholic or junkie can be seduced by the prospect of dying young and leaving a ...

From being a drug-addicted homeless man in the depths of Skid Row, Jared Klickstein has the firsthand experience necessary to navigate conversations about the current crises of homelessness and ...

Herb Stepherson was an admitted “junkbox” addict, a human garbage can of drugs. He’d put any type of pill, drug or illegal substance into his body for whatever escapist high it packed. He started in ...

Annie Highwater no longer sleeps with shoes on. Her son is sober after a long struggle with addiction — during which Highwater wore shoes to bed in case she had to respond to an emergency call in the ...

In her book “Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict,” editor and literary agent Irene Vilar shares her controversial story of having had 15 abortions in 15 years. In this excerpt, she ...

I've always been a bit of a book addict, and although I tend to prefer the real thing over digital iterations, I have to confess: I'm obsessed with audiobooks. Over the last six months, I've listened ...