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At 24, John fell in love with the church and has lived his devotion to it ever since, boldly championing his convictions in the face of resistance and even ridicule. He loved the rituals that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Only months after he had gotten clean himself, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Kennedy family lost his younger brother to addiction ...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carolyn Kuhl ordered Matthew Bergman, of the Social Media Victims Law Center, to pay $1,100 ...

Eric Gillespie of Londonderry, N.H., was an empathetic soul, caring, sensitive and introspective. A lover of music, video games and comic books, especially Batman, Eric “gravitated toward the ...

NEWARK, Delaware- (WPVI) -- To honor lives lost to addiction in Delaware, "Hope on Deck" placed a piece of footwear where loved ones would have stood. It's called the "Empty Shoe Project," where ...

Dwayne Johnson, famous as The Rock, has confessed a very personal and painful fact about his life that he has lost 15 friends to addiction and suicide during the last 20 years. This emotional ...

Families and advocates this week are remembering loved ones who’ve died in the opioid epidemic as part of events observing International Overdose Awareness Day, which falls on August 31. For the first ...

Timothy Anderson told a court Wednesday he was “shaking like a leaf” and was reluctant to speak of his grief over his daughter Sara’s overdose death. “We fought a war and we lost it,” he said. Yancy D ...