Statistics:  Don’t be one! While reading different articles on addiction, relapse rates, OD deaths, total number of people in active addiction, etc., I have come to learn that these numbers are staggering.  In my role at a treatment facility, I am a liaison between patients and facilities.  My job is to help these numbers...

Melissa Messina, an Alum of The Grove Recovery Center was recently in the spotlight of the Covington Police Department.  She has opened up Freedom House.  A 9-bed sober living house in Covington Area.  Here’s a link to the web page of the interview during her open house: http://www.nola.com/northshore/index.ssf/2018/02/i_love_this_man_recovering_add.html Keep doing what you’re doing Melissa! ...

Being on the AL ANON side of addiction my thoughts and perceptions have completely changed.  Before I knew what “addiction” was, I perceived the homeless man under the bridge with a brown paper bag the only “addicts” out there.  My view point completely changed, with a quickness, once I learned about a family member...