Apr 28, 2021 | Hope & Recovery, Understanding Mental Illness
If you are asking this question, you are probably not alone. In fact, 18 million Americans struggle with misusing alcohol or with the symptoms of Alcohol Use Disorders (AUD). If you feel as though your relationship with alcohol is a problem or could become a problem,...
Mar 23, 2016 | Hope & Recovery, News, Tips for Healthy Living, Understanding Mental Illness
Hi again! I am back with another blog. I was re-reading my first one “Shame: Managing Stormy Days” the other day and thought it was, “to my surprise” not bad.I say this not with an ego. I say it as “An Adult Child Of An Alcoholic”...
Feb 5, 2016 | Hope & Recovery
This fact could not have been made clearer than in a conversation with Theresa Russell*, who agreed to talk about how heroin has touched her life.Theresa began by handing over a list of six people’s names, their ages, and the dates of their overdoses and deaths. She...
Jan 15, 2016 | Hope & Recovery, Tips for Healthy Living
In Maine, over the last 10-15 years, the rising tide of prescription painkillers abuse and other opiates based drugs (legal and illegal) has reached epidemic proportions. The abuse of alcohol and other addictive drugs like marijuana/synthetic cannabinoids,...