By Michael Showalter

Is it possible to live a program of recovery if you're not technically among the living? With these revised 12 Steps, it's worth a shot. MORE  

By Mike Guy

With his dazzling new memoir, 90 Days, the literary wunderkind discovers that hitting rock bottom can be the easiest part of addiction. The tricky part is staying sober. MORE  

By Kristen Johnston

What happens after you write a bestselling memoir about recovery? The author of Guts (and star of The Exes) is discovering it's hard to keep it simple when you're a sober superhero. MORE  

By Cole Louison

Exactly 18 years after the suicide of Kurt Cobain, The Fix unveils five of his original artworks. A dark look into the mind of a tortured heroin addict, they're also ground zero in a battle between Cobain's widow and his publishing company. MORE  

By The Fix staff

The Third Rock From the Sun actress selects another harrowing chapter from her new memoir, "Guts: The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster." MORE  

By Valerie Tejeda

The coroner's report found a pharmacopeia of substances in the singers blood, including cocaine, Xanax, marijuana, Benadryl and a muscle relaxant. MORE  

By Luke Walker

The decadent director of Bad Lieutenant and King of New York was brought down by his own dark habits. Now he's a year sober and shooting a hot new film. MORE  

By Sam Lansky

Meet the author of The Next Right Thing, an effusively praised new novel that uses the recovery world as a backdrop for murder. MORE  

By Adam K. Raymond

The image of a celebrity addict is someone strung out and desperate—think Nick Nolte after an Ecstasy binge. But history and Hollywood are filled with less-storied substance abusers. Here are 10 who may surprise you. MORE  

By Sam Lansky

While Whitney Houston's death was devastating, the truth of the matter is that we had already lost her long ago. MORE