Eli’s addiction, which led to the life-changing accident, had become all-consuming in Edmonton. He had moved there from ...

When many people hear the word recovery, they often think only of abstinence, a life free from alcohol or drugs. It tends to be centered on what we are leaving behind or what we are giving up. While ...

A drug user prepares heroin at a safe injection clinic in Vancouver. One addictions researcher in Winnipeg says a common misconception about recovery is that abstinence is the only acceptable goal.

Jill Diamond is executive director of the Diamond Foundation, which has donated millions for health care and other causes. It’s taken me seven years to write these words. Seven years of crushing grief ...

Miranda Newman is the author of the new book Rough Magic: Living with Borderline Personality Disorder, from which this essay has been adapted. “What are your recovery goals?” my therapist asked me ...

Alberta has opened its fourth addiction recovery community in Calgary’s southeast, adding 74 beds that will serve up to 300 people per year. The facility is part of the Alberta government’s ...

Section 16 of the Criminal Code of Canada sets up provisions for the intricate relationship that has come to exist between mental illness and the criminal justice system. Some criminals plot and plan ...