News In Recovery
Friday, November 30 2007
A new spiritual retreat for recovering alcoholics and drug addicts is now available in Henderson, KY. A 2nd Chance Recovery Center, Inc is a residential program using the spiritual 12 step program based on the AA model. For additional information please visit the link below.
[More from A 2nd Chance Recovery Center Web Site]
Thursday, May 31 2007
An AA Fish Fry will be held in July (date to be set) at the Other House, 407 Park Ave., in Lebanon, TN. Vestor will be cooking!
Posted by Staff
Thursday, May 31 2007
The AA District 13 area meeting will be held Wednesday, June 13, 2007 at The Other House, 407 Park Avenue in Lebanon, TN. The meeting begins at 6:30 P.M. and is sponsored by the IBI-UBU Group.
Posted by Staff
Sunday, May 27 2007
The 26th annual Music City Roundup will be held at the Sheraton Music City in Nashville, TN from Thursday, July 5th, 2007 to Sunday, July 8th, 2007. There will be many Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon meetings throughout the event, along with daily featured speakers from around the country. Tickets are $20.00 and cover the hospitality room breakfast, lunch, dinner, seven speakers, the Thursday Candlelight Kickoff, dancing, meetings and workshops.
Directions to Sheraton Music City Hotel:
I-40 to Exit 215 Briley Parkway N towards Opryland. Right at 1st Exit- Elm Hill Pike, Right at 2nd traffic light at McGavock Pike. Hotel 1/2 mile on the left. Free parking.
[More from Music City Roundup Flyer]
Wednesday, March 14 2007
Can homeless shelters and halfway houses handle the increasing numbers of young adults being released to the streets from state run institutions that have been their care providers during formative years?
" In discussion groups, homeless young adults often talk about making plans as matter-of-factly as other kids their age -- only the content is different. ''They'd think: 'I'll go into the emergency shelters; stay outside during the summer; I'll head south for the winter; come back and commit some petty crimes and go into jail' -- just as matter-of-fact as any other young adult mapping the future.", said Philip Mangano, the Bush administration's point person on homelessness who was also the former head of the Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance.
[More from The Boston Globe]
Saturday, May 27 2006
Along with treatment centers, halfway houses and 12 step programs can be critical elements in the road to recovery for many alcoholics and addicts. Patients leaving treatment centers have learned of the recovery tools necessary to sustain sobriety, but entering the real world can often be a daunting experience. Transitional programs offered by some halfway houses provide the environment to practice new living skills which improve chances of recovery. They can also help patients develop a lifetime recovery plan by promoting twelve step programs such as AA or NA.
Posted by Staff
Tuesday, April 4 2006
Project Return helps locate employment opportunities, halfway houses and other resources for ex-offenders trying to reenter society.
A new program of the federal government, however, the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI), provided grants to 49 states in 2003 for the creation of reentry programs.
The Tennessee program, for which the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) received approximately $1 million, is called “Tennessee Bridges.” It is a three-year program managed by Project Return.
[More from Nashville City Paper]
Friday, January 6 2006
CHATTANOOGA, TN - A new online meth registry is available by the click of a mouse. In September, county officials started sending names and addresses of anyone convicted of making methamphetamine to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Like the state sex offender registry, District Attorney General Bill Cox says it's information the public should always have access to.
Posted by Staff
Sunday, December 25 2005
The Any Lengths Group of Alcoholics Anonymous in Lebanon says it's time for an "Eating Meeting"! The event will begin at 7:00 P.M. on Thursday, January 5th, 2006 and will be held at the St. Francis Catholic Church, 300 S. Tarver St. in Lebanon, TN. After the eating, there will be an AA open speaker meeting at 8:00 P.M.
It's Italian Night! Bring your favorite Italian covered dish or desert, and let's share some fellowship.
[More from Any Lengths Group]
Monday, October 10 2005
On Oct. 7th, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration announced new grants to divert persons with mental illness away from the criminal justice system and into mental health and substance abuse treatment programs. To date, six grants have been awarded in California, Illinois, Louisiana, New York and Virginia.
“All too often individuals with mental illness, often with co-occurring substance abuse, are incarcerated instead of receiving treatment for their disorders,” said SAMHSA Administrator Charles Curie. “These grants offer an alternative. By providing treatment and support services, we can avoid the unnecessary criminalization and incarceration of non-violent adult offenders with mental illnesses.”
[More from SAMHSA]
Monday, October 3 2005
Scientists have identified a brain mechanism in rats that may play a central role in regulating anxiety and alcohol-drinking. The finding, by researchers supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), could provide important clues about the neurobiology of alcohol-drinking behaviors in humans. A report of the study appears in the October 3, 2005 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
[More from NIAAA]
Friday, April 8 2005
In a questionable move, halfway houses in Blount County (Maryville, TN) were ruled commercial and will have to be moved or shut down. This decision is in possible conflict with a Federal Fair Housing Act which protects handicapped individuals, in this case recovering drug addicts and alcoholics, from discrimination in housing. The owners of the halfway houses, operated by Cornerstone of Recovery, will probably receive stop-use orders which require compliance within 30 days.
Posted by Staff
Wednesday, January 12 2005
Sumner County Regional Medical Center's chief emergency room physician Dr. David Lawhorn says that the use of illegal drugs - everything from cocaine to prescription drugs - is an epidemic. Dr. Lawhorn told News 2 that patients walk into the ER all the time, faking pain to try to get a prescription for narcotics. And that's not all.
[More from Nashville News 2]
Wednesday, January 5 2005
Treatment centers from Virginia to California are starting to copy New Jersey's groundbreaking program to help people recovering from drug and alcohol addiction to also quit cigarette smoking.
"It's an inexpensive program that has great results and restores people's health," said Jim O'Brien, executive director of Addiction Treatment Providers of New Jersey, which represents about 70 treatment centers and halfway houses.
Posted by Staff
Monday, December 27 2004
Comedian George Carlin announced he is going into alcohol and drug rehab due to an alcohol problem and an addiction to the prescription pain medication Vicodin. The 67 year-old anti-establishment comedian did not announce the location of the treatment center but did indicate that he planned to resume his live appearances after taking 'a little time for myself.' A spokesman for Carlin said that he entered a rehab program on Monday. Carlin released a statement saying, 'I'm going into rehab because I use too much wine and Vicodin. No one told me I needed this; I recognized the problem and took the step myself.
[More from Elites TV]
Monday, December 27 2004
MURRAY, Ky. - When she left home in Western Kentucky for law school in 1999, she took with her a dream of practicing law, a criminal record and a new recipe for making meth. All three would come together to bring her to where she is now.
She earned a law degree in 2002, but she lost her job as a law clerk for a Paducah judge in March because of her methamphetamine use and is serving six months in the Marshall County Jail for meth and other drug convictions.
[More from The Courier-Journal]
Monday, December 20 2004
The halfway house movement has spread with the force of a juggernaut throughout North America. At this point, thousands have benefited from the support and guidance received during their residence. Indeed, the loss of halfway housing in Ontario for provincially-sentenced offenders was perhaps the only serious reversal in this process. I believe that a contributing factor to the ease with which this loss was accomplished was that the record of residential success had been left largely unexamined and unquestioned.
[More from CSC Forum]
Sunday, December 5 2004
Kentucky had good intentions in releasing some nonviolent offenders to save money. But the state short changed its post-release programs, and an opportunity was lost. In Alabama, the state's commission has been working to restructure sentencing policies, at least partly as a response to the state's fiscal woes. In Louisiana (the state with the highest percentage of its population behind bars), legislators have recently reduced the length of mandatory sentences for drug crimes. In New York, where the modern drug wars were born in the early 1970s, the political leadership is also inching its way toward reforming the harsh Rockefeller drug laws. And in Texas, one of the most fervently lock-'em-up states, Gov. Rick Perry signed a bill in June mandating drug-treatment plans for first-time nonviolent drugoffenders.
Posted by Staff
Wednesday, December 1 2004
LEXINGTON, KY - When Kentucky Lt. Gov. Steve Pence says that "we can not and will not incarcerate our way out of this drug problem,"people should sit up and listen. A former federal prosecutor, Pence has spent the better part of a year leading a search for answers to Kentucky's drug abuse crisis. Any effective solution, he says, will require a greater commitment to education, demand-reduction and treatment, while continuing to stress enforcement.
Posted by Staff
Saturday, November 27 2004
Before its demise, the original company sold about $35 million in furniture annually to institutional customers who were furnishing halfway houses, drug-rehab centers and dorms. That market was waiting for This End Up's revival, Kelly said. For its comeback, This End Up is returning to two markets that were staples of the original company's yellow-pine pieces for two generations - college dormitories and treatment centers.
Posted by Staff
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