Florida Recovery Project MONTHLY LUNCH AND LEARN VIRTUAL LEARNING COMMUNITY A brief informational presentation followed by updates and discussion regarding the development of recovery community organizations in Florida. Registration is required. TIME: 12:00pm ET WHEN: The fourth Friday at noon, except for the months of May, September, November, and December March 26, 2021 • Collaborating with Churches…
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From navigating arguments to managing your finances, early recovery is often a crash course in the real world. It’s often said that people with substance use disorder stop maturing at the age they were when they started using. If you were addicted to drugs or alcohol throughout your teens or young adulthood, you probably missed…
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By JOHN CONNOR COULSTON – October 24, 2020 04:19 pm EDT Robery Downer Jr. is recounting some of the darkest days of his life, including the heights of his drug abuse. Before Downey, 55, turned his life and career around in the mid-2000s, he went through decades of drug use. Things came to ahead in…
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By Scott Sutton | October 27, 2020 at 3:41 PM EDT – Updated October 28 at 9:52 AM Gov. Ron DeSantis and the first lady are holding a roundtable discussion Tuesday afternoon regarding the opioid crisis. During the event, the governor announced a $5 million pilot program to help fight the crisis. The program, called…
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Until now, recovery communities have been limited to uniting and celebrating recovery by holding local rallies, walks, and other events. Through the use of the Internet we can now bridge the geographical and time zone barriers, allowing us to join all folks in recovery from all addictions, including all recovery pathways – all around the…
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By Alexandria Hein | Fox News As the nation gets more stringent about non-essential travel and bans on group gatherings to slow the spread of coronavirus, one expert says the pandemic may result in an unintended rise in drug and alcohol relapses among those who are in recovery. “Yes, we are already starting to see an increase in relapses,” Dayry Hulkow, M.S.,…
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March 11 (UPI) — Twelve-step programs still work for people trying to recover from alcohol problems, a new analysis has found. A study published Wednesday by the Cochrane Library shows Alcoholics Anonymous, or AA, and clinically-related 12-Step Facilitation programs are more effective than other treatments, including cognitive behavioral therapy. Researchers say that participants in AA and 12-step programs…
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HUNTINGTON — States will soon be able to utilize opioid funding from the federal government to address the resurgence of methamphetamine and cocaine. The 2020 funding bill passed by Congress in December included Republican Ohio Sen. Rob Portman’s Combating Meth and Cocaine Act. The bill expands the use of the State Opioid Response Grant funding…
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) — At just ten months sober, Michael Quinones suffered a horrible injury that would almost certainly send him back into the harrowing grips of addiction, if he decided to keep his foot. Quinones was working a landscaping job in 2017 when a mower slid down some wet grass, slicing open the back…
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Fellowship RCO Staff at the 6th Annual Hopefest (previously know as Soberfest) There were many agencies showcasing the services available to the Recovery Community, Food, Live Music, Narcan Training and Distribution.
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