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Cynthia Doucette visited Crossroads for Women’s Residential Rehabilitation facility in Windham, Maine on Tuesday, June 5th to talk to women from the short-term and long-term mother and child residential programs about her daughter, Candice. Candice was 18 years old when she died of a methadone overdose in 2003. She was at a party with friends…
Bob Curley wrote an interesting article on the Join Together website about the influence the addiction community has had over big corporations and corporate responsibility. Curley sites Anheuser-Busch’s recent decision to stop selling the controversial alcoholic energy drink, Spykes, as an example. (Read more about Spykes in Anheuser-Busch’s Marketing and Labeling of Alcoholic Energy Drink,…
New research shows that middle school children are getting alcohol from their parents. And we’re not talking about stealing booze out of the liquor cabinet when mom and dad aren’t looking. A new study, lead by principal investigator Kelli Komro, lead author Mary O Hearst and colleagues, found that more than one-third of the alcohol…
Chemical dependency is the loss of control over an addictive substance. It is an illness that strikes randomly throughout the population. It happens to people at all income levels, of all races, any age and both genders. It does not result from a lack of willpower or loose morals. Rather, it’s a terrifying, destructive, progressive…
The following is an unedited entry from Crossroads for Women’s Residential Rehabilitation program Hope Book. Women who attend the short-term residential program are encouraged to write their thoughts down in the form of letters and poems for other women going through the program to read. We share these excerpts in hopes of helping other women…
Clients at Crossroads for Women’s Residential Rehabilitation program in Windham, Maine recently had a group discussion about their experiences in substance abuse treatment. Many of the women in the group had previous experiences in treatment at varying levels. In all cases, Crossroads for Women was their first experience with women-only treatment. Here are some of…
Anheuser-Busch introduced a new alcoholic energy drink in January that’s getting a lot of attention from alcohol abuse prevention groups and attorneys general around the country. “Spykes” is described on an Anheuser-Busch wholesaler’s website as “a great alternative to hard liquor shots. A Spykes pour takes beer up a notch by adding a caffeinated rush…
The following unedited entry comes from a discussion in Crossroads for Women’s Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP): This week in IOP, we had a guest speaker from Franny Peabody Center come to talk about STD, HIV and Hepatitis. We learned about prevention, protection and self-care. In addition, this week we had group members transfer to residential…
Crossroads for Women will be participating in two upcoming women’s health events, both of which are being held on Saturday, May 19, 2007. The Women’s Health Expo is from 7:30am until 3:30pm at Goodall Hospital in Sanford, Maine and is free and open to the public. The expo features 160 vendors of “unique products and…
The state of Maine released crime statistics for 2006, and they aren’t positive. In fact, they show the fastest increase in crime since 1993. The overall number of serious crimes in Maine increased 4.6% in 2006 over 2005. According to the stats, which are based on reports from the state’s individual police agencies, the number…