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RECO Reads: Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget by Sarah Hepola
“When addiction lives in you, it sprouts many vines,” Sarah Hepola writes in her absorbing memoir, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget. I pulled a highlighter…
Read more →RECO: A Nationally Recognized and Accredited Intensive Outpatient Program
With over 15 nationally recognized certifications and accreditations within the addiction treatment, sober living, governmental, and medical communities, RECO is a leader within its field. Most recently, RECO…
Read more →Be Like a Tree: The Art of Grounding
I grew up in a house surrounded by apple trees. This is the time of year that I think of them most. I am reminded of long days…
Read more →Heroin Mixed with Carfentanil Linked to Overdoses
Recent reports from the state of Ohio have linked a combination of heroin and carfentanil, an elephant tranquilizer, to multiple overdose deaths. According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, carfentanil…
Read more →Podcasts to Motivate Your Recovery
Through the rapid evolution of technology and media, countless resources for recovering addicts have come forth in recent years. Podcasts, most available for free with an Internet connection…
Read more →Sober Celebrities: Addiction in the Public Eye
12 years ago today I came out of my last toxic, life threatening stupor. I now have a wife & babies & some self-esteem #gratitude #promises
Read more →International Overdose Awareness Day
Today, August 31st, is International Overdose Awareness Day (IOAD). As the leading cause of unintentional death for Americans, drug overdoses have become a fatal and haunting epidemic. The…
Read more →The Creative Mind: Art Therapy in Recovery
Despite my tendency to draw stick figures and bubble letters when presented with a blank page, I believe deeply in the power of art therapy. It is a…
Read more →Take Care: Tools for Self-Compassion in Recovery
It is a sentence with which we often punctuate polite conversation, nearly as common as goodbye. Take care of yourself. Though it is this inconspicuous phrase that can…
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