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Meet 24-year-old Jessica McDaniel: The woman who couldn't go without a drink before 11 in the morning is now helping other young people not make the same mistake through a peer education program for the Center for Young Adult Addiction and Recovery at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. This is the latest addition to our series The Recovery Diaries.
The premature loss of her younger sister, then 20, sent Gabrielle into a world of deep depression and painkillers, where she battled her own addiction demons ...
He’s old friends with weed, painkillers, heroin and their sometime companion, psychosis.
Meet Adam Abramowitz, a 27-year-old who lives near the edge of death.
Logan’s story of struggle and healing is the latest testimonial from a youth in substance abuse recovery to be included in The Recovery Diaries.
For drug or alcohol abusers who get cleaned up, success builds on success. Some of those stories of struggle and success are featured in “The Recovery Diaries,” a new short film produced by the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange.