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3 Tips for Finding Help for Opiate Addiction

September 5, 2017 | Addiction, Counseling, Emotional wellbeing, Heroin, Opiates, Partners, Recovery, Rx drugs, Treatment

Recognizing the need to find help for an addiction to opiates is the first step on your road to recovery. No one chooses to become addicted, and the impact of addiction can affect more than just the person with a

'An Encourager for People'

August 25, 2017 | Addiction, Coping, Counseling, Heroin, Opiates, Partners, Recovery

Peer supporter part of new program of people sharing their own experience to help people in recovery from addiction By John Cummings, Director of Communications (soon to appear in the Wilmington News

Researching Mental Health & Addiction Services

June 16, 2017 | Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholic, Coping, Counseling, Depression, Drinking, Emotional wellbeing, Heroin, Mental health, Mental illness, Opiates, Partners, Recovery, Stress, Treatment

It\'s a big milestone to acknowledge the need for help to work through a mental illness or addiction and start on the road to recovery. If you\'re there, or if you\'re looking for information to help a loved one, the

Anxious, Concerned and in Crisis? Good Listeners are a Call Away

March 24, 2017 | Addiction, Alcohol, Anxiety, Coping, Counseling, Depression, Drinking, Heroin, Mental illness, Opiates, Recovery, Stress, Suicide awareness, Suicide prevention

Everyone experiences anxiety or depression now and again. Things happen - breakups, failing a test or not getting a promotion at work, for example - that just make us feel down in the dumps. It's when those feelings

Perspectives on PTSD

July 20, 2016 | Alcohol, Counseling, Drinking, Heroin, Opiates, Recovery, Trauma

According to a CNN post, the man who shot and killed three Baton Rouge police officers last week suffered from PTSD. A former Marine, he had reportedly told that to friends and relatives before the

Working to Stop the Hurt: Hope in the Face of Addiction

June 24, 2016 | Addiction, Counseling, Emotional wellbeing, Heroin, Mental illness, Opiates, Partners, Recovery, Rx drugs

The question is looming large for Warren and Clinton Counties: What are we going to do about drug addiction, and specifically opioids like heroin and fentanyl? To call it an epidemic may not be strong enough.