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Recovery education, treatment insights, and addiction-recovery resources from the RECO Intensive clinical team.

TreatmentNovember 4th, 2016

Heroin Overdoses in Delray Beach Reach Record Numbers; 88 in October Alone

The Palm Beach Post reported on Wednesday that city officials have confirmed 88 heroin overdoses during the month of October in Delray Beach. The former record high of…

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TreatmentNovember 3rd, 2016

Parks and Rec Producer Harris Wittels' Mother Issues Plea for Substance Use Awareness

“I am sharing this story because I want other families to hopefully know what we did not know,” wrote comedian and writer Harris Wittels' mother, Maureen, in her…

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TreatmentOctober 28th, 2016

Elizabeth Vargas Sheds Light on Her Alcoholism with New Memoir

Newsanchor Elizabeth Vargas has covered dozens of major events throughout her journalism career. Behind the headlines she presented to the public, though, lurked her own intense and life-threatening…

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TreatmentOctober 27th, 2016

Addiction in the Media: Macklemore Draws Attention to the Opiate Epidemic

Hip-hop artist Macklemore, aka Ben Haggerty, has been making waves in the media over the past several weeks. The Grammy award winner, who has collaborated with producer Ryan…

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TreatmentOctober 21st, 2016

RECO Reads: Brave Enough by Cheryl Strayed

Author Cheryl Strayed refers to quotes as “mini-instruction manuals for the soul,” and her most recent published work is the greatest testament to that analogy. Full of heart…

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TreatmentOctober 19th, 2016

"Drunkorexia": The Dangerous Trend, and the Facts You Need to Know

In an alarming trend sweeping the nation’s college campuses, “drunkorexia” has become all-too common. The non-medical slang term, which refers to a combination of symptoms related to both…

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TreatmentOctober 10th, 2016

World Mental Health Day

As reported by the World Health Organization, one in four individuals around the world will be affected by mental or neurological disorders at some point in their lives…

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TreatmentSeptember 29th, 2016

Nearly 30 Heroin Overdoses Reported in the Columbus Area in a 24-Hour Period

Twenty-four hours. One thousand, four hundred and forty minutes. In the city of Columbus, Ohio, that was the timeframe in which 27 heroin overdoses took place. Paramedics and…

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AddictionSeptember 28th, 2016

Deadly Synthetic Opioid U-47700, AKA “Pinky," A Dangerous Threat

In mid-September, two 13-year-old Utah boys died unexpectedly. Authorities are now investigating the connection between their deaths and a deadly designer drug called U-47700. The drug, also referred…

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