RI’s first recovery center opens in city

RI’s first recovery center opens in city
By Donna Kenny Kirwan [email protected] 1213PAWT ANCHOR GILLEN GREETS.jpg PAWTUCKET — As program director Jim Gillen knows firsthand, it can be very difficult for someone trying to recover from drug or alcohol abuse to find new ways to live, work and socialize. The new Anchor Recovery Community Center in downtown Pawtucket aims to provide some much-needed …
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Asheville group fights food addiction one day at a time
ASHEVILLE — You won’t find the members of this recovery program high in any back alley or wandering the streets for their next fix.
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Ploehn removed as head of L.A. County child welfare agency
Antonia Jimenez, who wrote a critical report of the troubled department, is expected to be named interim chief. Trish Ploehn, the embattled director of Los Angeles County’s Department of Children and Family Services, was removed Monday and is expected to be replaced for now by a top county official who wrote a recent report which found the agency to be in “crisis.”
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