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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.
James Milan entered foster care at age 4. “My childhood wasn’t the greatest,” he says wryly. “I was trying to figure out why my mother didn’t want me, why my father wasn’t there.” In and out of foster care homes and group homes, he found the Claremont Neighborhood Center in the Bronx, N.Y., — and now works as a senior counselor there with kids ages 5 through 13.
Hurt. Frustration. Grief. Anger. Guilt. Three sisters and one brother reflect on their dead siblings' drug addictions.
"I just couldn't stop," said Nolan Eley, 25, who lived through a revolving door of getting help, relapsing and alienating loved ones before finding help from the support of his peers.
Thousands gathered at the Unite to Face Addiction Rally in Washington, D.C., Sunday, Oct. 4, to fight the stigma of addiction and to celebrate substance use recovery.
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 ...
Adam went into and out of rehab, struggled to overcome — only to be pulled back into a deadly embrace.
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.