Sometimes, when life gives you lemons, you have no choice but to make lemonade. After battling a crack addiction about 25 years ago, Joe Huisman recently turned to comedy to transform his ...

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There aren’t too many comedians who can say their first gig was at San Quentin State Prison. Not that Mark Lundholm, a recovering addict who is co-headlining the Addicts Comedy Tour with fellow ...

The Recovery Arts Project and Bigvision have announced at partnership aimed at addressing the addiction epidemic through the power of the arts. This collaboration will expand Bigvision's reach into ...

A man in recovery plays basketball as an outlet to help him stay sober. A musician turns to drinking to cope with his mother’s cancer diagnosis. A teacher faces a moral dilemma: Should she punish a ...