MedicineNet.com, August 7, 2015 Traditional face-to-face support groups are better than increasingly popular online support groups at helping people with substance abuse problems stay sober, a new study finds. Researchers surveyed 141 women and 55 men, aged 18 to over 60, who used both types of support groups. More than 90 percent of the participants […]
Statesman Journal, July 14, 2015 Tim Murphy learned a lesson recently. The executive director of Bridgeway Recovery Services, which treats people with addiction and mental illness, realized there are certain people in the Salem community who are more focused on getting rid of people with addiction rather than the illness itself. It’s easy to judge […]
The Desert Sun, May 28, 2014 Chris Tate, 50, grew up as a straight-A student, raised Catholic in a blue-collar neighborhood near the docks of Long Beach and Los Angeles, with a brother, a sister and a cousin on “almost every block.” He was active in a church youth group. But he always felt different […]
The New York Times, May 8, 2014 The psychologist Lynda Crane found that of the many injuries inflicted by schizophrenia, the greatest could be the pain of being forgotten. Just naming the illness somehow erased the person, something she learned when her 18-year-old son’s doctors said he had schizophrenia. Six years later, he committed suicide. […]
By Jenny Westberg, Portland Mental Health Examiner, March 15, 2014 Gayathri Ramprasad’s story begins a world away from Cedar Mill, Oregon, where she now makes her home. Growing up in Bangalore, everything was different, from her expected role as a young woman in Brahmin society, to – as she would later learn – which way […]
By Michael Hedrick, The New York Times, Feb. 27, 2014 I still remember the first group therapy session I went to after I got out of the hospital. I was 20 and had been diagnosed with schizophrenia after a road trip that took me from Colorado to the United Nations building in New York City, […]
By Linda Rosenberg, President & CEO, National Council for Behavioral Health, June 21, 2013 Ever wondered what it’s like to live with a mental illness or addiction? Is there hope? Is help available? The Other Side ― an award-winning 5-minute film marking the 50th anniversary of the Community Mental Health Act passed by President Kennedy […]
By Katherine Driessen and Emily E. Smith, The Oregonian, May 23, 2013 A sober house for recovering addicts operated for a year across from Reedville Elementary unbeknownst to the Hillsboro School District, the sheriff’s office and the probation department in part because there is no formal county oversight as to where such houses are located. […]
From The Oregonian, August 02, 2012 Eds Comment: Unmentioned in this story is Dan Winters is the subject of Brian Lindstrom’s 2006 documentary Finding Normal. With some stories, it’s difficult to see where a story starts and ends. In this case, pick a day in the fall of 2006, call it the beginning and let […]
Dear Friend, The holidays can be a stressful time of year for many, but for those new to recovery it can also be a dangerous time, with relapse right around the corner. And with private and public resources for recovery and social service programs continuing to shrink, the need to have access to 12-Step meetings […]
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