City Planning – Urban Design – Recovery from Addiction

City Planning – Urban Design – Recovery from Addiction – A discussion on how city planning and urban design might contribute to those working on recovery from addiction.

“Our Stories Have Power” Recovery Messaging For Young People Released

Filed under: recovery from addiction

This customized training is intended to give them a highly credible and persuasive way to talk about long-term recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs when they are speaking to friends, relatives, neighbors, employers – and in the media.
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Fundraising dinner for recovery safe house scheduled for April 18

Filed under: recovery from addiction

Leon Brush, who co-founded the safe house with his wife, Donita, said 75 percent of addicts who finish Brian's Safehouse's 13-month program stay sober in contrast to 10 percent of recovered addicts who remain clean after going through a state system.
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4 Extreme Ways Companies Have Restricted Smoking on the Job

Filed under: recovery from addiction

Court rulings against the tobacco industry have repeatedly described nicotine as an addictive substance, and the medical community—and their counterparts in the recovery field—have gone to great lengths to impress upon officials and the public that …
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Carol Burnett Remembers Her Daughter

Filed under: recovery from addiction

Her memoir Carrie and Me: A Mother-Daughter Love Story recounts Carrie and Carol's bravely going public with Carrie's drug addiction and recovery when she was a teenager. Carrie lived her adult life of sobriety to the fullest, becoming a successful …
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