America Honors Recovery Awards
2010 America Honors Recovery Event was on July 28, 2010! Learn more...
The Recovery Bill of Rights
is a statement of the principle that all Americans have a right to recover from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. Learn more…
Campaigns: Addiction, Treatment, and Recovery Caucus
Help us enlist one-third of the members of the US House of Representatives in the Congressional Addiction, Treatment and Recovery Caucus by the end of 2009
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The Congressional Addiction, Treatment and Recovery Caucus was founded in 2004 to serve as a groundbreaking forum to inform, educate and raise awareness about addiction and recovery and to increase legislative support for expanding access to care for people with addiction. The bi-partisan caucus brings members of the House and their staffs together to focus attention on their shared interest and build support for policies that will support addiction recovery.
In 2009, Representatives Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) and John Sullivan (R-OK) will be serving as the Caucus co-chairs, joined by Representatives Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) and Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH) who will be serving as Vice co-chairs.
Faces & Voices of Recovery and allied organizations around the country have set a goal of enlisting one-third of the members of the US House of Representatives in the Congressional Addiction, Treatment and Recovery Caucus by the end of this year. Eighty one members have already joined, so we just need 65 more to go!
Click here to find out if your Representative has joined. If yes, please send him or her a thank you letter and include something about yourself and your community.
If no, please ask him or her to join today! Organize a group of constituents to call or e-mail and ask him or her to join the Addiction, Treatment and Recovery Caucus. Let your Representative know that you and other people in the recovery community can offer your knowledge and expertise to the caucus.
Here is a list of the members of the US House of Representatives as of February 2009, with Caucus members in bold.
Want to start an Addiction Treatment and Recovery Caucus in your state? Read more...