Recovery from addiction is possible. For help, please call the free and confidential treatment referral hotline (1-800-662-HELP) or visit findtreatment.gov. Last year more than 100,000 people in the U.S. died from an overdose – the highest number ever recorded. More than a million Americans have lost their lives to overdose […]
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‘Recovery is Possible’: National Addiction Expert Discusses Stigma, Recovery
Recovery from addiction is possible. For help, please call the free and confidential treatment hotline (1-800-662-HELP) or visit findtreatment.gov. For more than a year, a team of folks from 100 Days in Appalachia and the Opioid Policy Institute have been working on ways to address unintentional stigma that often appears […]
Read MoreWhat Hulu’s Newest Series Won’t Show You: A Virginia Community Solving Its Opioid Crisis
Recovery from addiction is possible. For help, please call the free and confidential treatment referral hotline (1-800-662-HELP) or visit findtreatment.gov. The report didn’t bring good news. In 2017, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said doctors in Martinsville, Virginia, gave out more opioids per person than any other city […]
Read MoreMedication and Recovery: Doctors Say Access to Critical Addiction Care is Difficult in Appalachia
Recovery from addiction is possible. For help, please call the free and confidential treatment referral hotline (1-800-662-HELP) or visit findtreatment.gov. Matt Carroll has stories to tell – stories he’s not proud of but shares for a purpose. After years of living with substance use disorder and through multiple incarcerations associated […]
Read More‘It Doesn’t Have to Be the End’: A Personal Account of Addiction and Hope in Appalachia
Recovery from addiction is possible. For help, please call the free and confidential treatment referral hotline 1-800-662-HELP or visit findtreatment.gov. On January 2nd, 2021, I woke up to find Thea Wright dead of a heroin overdose. When the police and paramedics arrived, she was treated like another “junkie,” another nameless […]
Read MoreI’ve Always Wanted To Be A Mother: Starting Over After A Life On The Streets In Addiction
WYSO’s Recovery Stories series brings you intimate conversations from the heart of Dayton’s opioid epidemic. In this story, we meet Susan Fitzpatrick and Rebecca Thayer, mother and daughter who describe themselves as best friends. Their voices even sound remarkably alike. Rebecca, who friends call Becky, is 35 years old and […]
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