Feds Fight Substance Use Disorder
All across the country, the Federal Government is increasing funding to fight substance use disorder. Unfortunately, funding wouldn’t need to be increased if the problem was being solved. Indeed. A quick check of the latest news reveals funding increases in Texas, Virginia and Maine. And that’s just the first page of a single quick check. Hard telling how many other…
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Addiction Recovery: The Mind/Body Treatment Paradigm
Are you sick? Then you’ll want to see a doctor. Are you suffering from substance abuse? Well, then you’ll want to see a doctor who’s in addiction recovery. It only makes sense. If that doctor happens to hail from Harvard? Well, you’ll want to see that doctor without delay! That’s where we find ourselves with Dr. Peter Grinspoon. It’s also…
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Lena Dunham and Celeb Friends Unite for Friendly House
Friendly House certainly has some high profile friends. Then again, when you’ve been successfully operating in Los Angeles for nearly 70 years, you’d better have some high profile friends. This year, those friends joined Lena Dunham as she emceed a fundraiser for the recovery center. The cause couldn’t have been more worthy. Neither could the gathering. The friends of Friendly…
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How Deep Prayer Benefits Recovery
People generally learn about the power of deep prayer during their very first week in recovery. Sometimes they’ll learn about its power on the very first day. And why wouldn’t they? Most addiction treatment centers and sober living homes adhere to the practices and principles found in Alcoholics Anonymous. And AA is perhaps the world’s largest advocate of deep prayer….
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Run 4 Recovery
Do you have what it takes to cycle across three separate states just to help a stranger or two? Don’t sweat it. Few folks do. Very few. Except, that is, the folks in Run 4 Recovery. A good-guy-on-the-go named Robin McGeough founded Run 4 Recovery for one very simple reason: to give back to the recovery community to which he…
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