eNewsletter - October 13, 2006
Ask your member of Congress to call for a vote on the Paul Wellstone Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act when Congress returns on November 13th. More...
- Faces & Voices of Recovery Board member William Moyers has been on a nationwide tour talking up and about his new book, "Broken.” Many thanks to William for providing information about recovery advocacy and Faces & Voices in the book as well as on his web site! To find out if he will be in a community near you, to read more about the book and to join his blog, go to www.williammoyers.com. And here’s a link to one of the many articles and interviews that have appeared over the last month.
- Rep. Elijah Cunningham (D-MD) hosted a Congressional Black Caucus Brain Trust on Eliminating Racial Disparities in Substance Abuse Policies in September with the National African American Drug Policy Coalition. Faces & Voices of Recovery Board member and Association of Persons Affected by Addiction (Dallas, TX) Executive Director Joe Powell was one of the speakers at the session, which can be viewed online.
- The Silent Treatment: Addiction in America project and series, which appeared in 47 newspapers across the country during Recovery Month, can still be accessed if your local newspaper did not run the series.
- Congressional Briefing on Peer Recovery Support Services PowerPoint presentations and background materials.
Regular recovery checkups were found to help people stay in recovery longer or, if they relapse, get them back into treatment sooner. A NIDA-funded study by Dr. Christy Scott and Dr. Michael Dennis of Chestnut Health Systems followed individuals for two years after treatment.
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