“When I use a word,” one of 19th century British author and mathematician Lewis Carroll’s characters once said, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” Though he was a ...

For the estimated 20.5 million people in the United States in recovery for substance use disorder, there's no one goal: Recovery is a spectrum. For some, "successful recovery" can be defined as total ...

In the case of a word like democracy, not only is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make one is resisted from all sides. It is almost universally felt that when we call a country ...

Not long ago, recovery meant in-person meetings, a paper journal, maybe a well-worn sponsor’s number saved on a speed dial. But something has shifted, and it’s not just cultural. It's digital. The ...

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 ...