When it comes to restoring mental health and coming back from substance use, there’s no denying the power of lived experience. A new center in Brunswick further brings that to life. There’s something ...
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. As Iowa legislators continue to debate how best to allocate more than $25 million intended for treatment ...
BOISE, Idaho — September is National Recovery Month, which is all about increasing awareness of substance use disorders, and crushing the stigma behind asking for help. One less daunting way of ...
Lehigh County has opened at Change on Hamilton Street Recovery Center a peer-based substance abuse recovery center on Hamilton Street. It’s intended to be a place where people on recovery can come in, ...
On Jan. 1, Kentucky’s licensing standards will change, making thousands of recovery peer support specialists no longer ...
This interview accompanies the third podcast in our National Recovery Month series with Kim MacDonald-Wilson, ScD, CPRP, senior program director, Recovery and Wellness Transformation, and Tracy Carney ...
Lys Skelly has a lot of things she’s proud of. She has degrees in religious education and in paralegal studies. She was Fairbanks Waitress of the Year in 2012. She recently got married and bought land ...
A new grant from New Hampshire’s Division of Behavioral Health at the Department of Health and Human Services awarded the University of New Hampshire $400,000 to create alternative peer groups for ...
At a recent open meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous — the 86-year-old international peer-support recovery program, which opens some of its meetings to the general public — more than 75 people attended, ...