A change in Kentucky's licensing standards for substance use recovery peer support specialists is set to take effect at the ...

Driving by, you wouldn’t realize that the Horizon House in Duluth had so much transformation happening inside. There is space for 10 men who are living in recovery. In the past six months, Horizon ...

THEY'VE BEEN THERE: From left, Philip Cooper, Jenna Woodman, Dillon Moss and Brandon Manson are part of the peer support specialist team in the Investments Supporting Partnerships in Recovery ...

When Alicia Doty was in a Shakopee prison for drug-related charges stemming from her methamphetamine addiction, volunteers who had once shared her experience visited during her 1 1/2-year sentence.

The Carroll County Board of Commissioners proclaimed September to be Recovery Month, and one of those in the Health Department helping people try to escape substance abuse is certified peer recovery ...

This interview accompanies the third podcast in our National Recovery Month series with Kim MacDonald-Wilson, ScD, CPRP, senior program director, Recovery and Wellness Transformation, and Tracy Carney ...

Adolescent me. At the library. Looking at a bulletin board. It had been a rough year for me and my mental health with hospitalizations, intensive outpatient, medications, and therapy. I often wondered ...

ROANOKE, Va. – Cynthia Haley is not an EMT, but she responds to overdose calls alongside Roanoke Fire-EMS. As a registered peer recovery specialist with the Bradley Free Clinic, Haley uses her own ...

FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. — More help is coming to support people struggling with substance abuse and misuse in Fayette County and beyond through the launch of the state’s first Police and Peers Program.

DANIELS — Being a role model is taxing work, especially when being one helps people battling addiction find that road to sobriety, so these role models are coming together this week in Raleigh County ...

Lys Skelly has a lot of things she’s proud of. She has degrees in religious education and in paralegal studies. She was Fairbanks Waitress of the Year in 2012. She recently got married and bought land ...