Hope & Recovery Articles

How to Maintain Sobriety at the New Year’s Party

How to Maintain Sobriety at the New Year’s Party

For those in early recovery, it is probably not a good idea to go to a New Year’s party where there is going to be alcohol. Even those who are well established in their sobriety can find such events a challenge. Sometimes, though, it can be difficult to avoid such...

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A New Year, A New You?

A New Year, A New You?

Each January, millions of people attempt to improve something in their lives by committing to a New Year’s Resolution – a promise to themselves that, this year, things will be different.  By February, many of those resolutions are forgotten or discarded.  What happens...

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Maine’s Opiate Epidemic

Maine’s Opiate Epidemic

According to Maine’s Attorney General’s Office, the evident opiate epidemic in Maine has resulted in 50 more deaths in 2014 from just 4 years ago. In response to WMTW’s series on Maine’s Heroin Epidemic this month, Outpatient Therapy Director Luanne Starr Rhoades of...

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