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 ...

Peer support is an assistance program offered by people with lived experience of gambling harm who offer emotional ...

Adolescent me. At the library. Looking at a bulletin board. It had been a rough year for me and my mental health with hospitalizations, intensive outpatient, medications, and therapy. I often wondered ...

People in recovery share stories from narcotics recovery, demonstrating that healing from substance use is possible.

In a first, a Durango nonprofit is bringing a peer-based recovery support program to La Plata County with a focus on the unhoused and supportive housing communities. Community Compassion Outreach’s ...

Shine On brings families and residents together to break stigma, celebrate recovery, and connect with local mental health ...

ED-based peer support recovery programs increase treatment uptake and engagement but do not significantly reduce repeat ...

WEST VIRGINIA (WCHS) — A local man who is in long-term recovery is now helping others to leave drugs behind for good. "Since Jan. 8, 2018, I decided not to do drugs anymore," Richard Washington said. ...

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 ...

It’s no secret that a community in northern New Mexico has been plagued with drug use and addiction for decades, with the ...

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 ...

When he was a counselor, Michael Cunningham fielded a lot of questions about his own experiences with drugs and alcohol. At the time, he didn’t share much of his story with clients. But now, as a peer ...