April is Alcohol Awareness Month. While media tend to focus on teenagers who drink during this month, the truth is that alcohol and alcoholism affect every demographic. Here are some facts about women and girls and alcohol that you might not know. If you have any questions, please reach out to Crossroads for Women today…
The Betty Ford Center‘s recent newsletter, Findings (Winter 2008), included an article on a study about women-focused substance abuse treatment. The study found that women-focused and women-only treatment groups have long-term, positive outcomes. Researchers took patients with substance use disorders and randomly assigned them to either a women-focused treatment group, called the Women’s Recovery Group,…
A recent article in the New York Times brings attention to the actions of a local prosecutor in Andalusia, Alabama, with a rural jurisdiction of barely 37,000. District attorney, Greg L. Gambril, has overseen at least 8 prosecutions of women for using drugs while pregnant. According to the article, this tally has no recent parallel…
Update: On March 5th, The House voted 268 to 148 in favor of H.R. 1424, the Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act. Read more Faces and Voices of Recovery is asking the public to join them in calling on their US Representative to help make history by voting “Yes” on The Paul Wellstone…
“Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself. At my worst, I even resented Nic because an addict, at least when high, has a momentary respite from his suffering. There is no similar…
Participants of Crossroads for Women for Women’s friends and family educational series typically react in this manner when presented with information about addiction and how it affects everyone around the addicted person. They realize they are not alone. They realize they can’t control what their loved one might be doing to themselves or to those…
Faces and Voices of Recovery, an organization dedicated to changing the public’s perception of recovery from alcohol and drug addiction, is asking for the public’s help in speaking out against VH-1‘s show “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.” In a press release sent out earlier in the week, the organization is asking people to call VH-1…
Teresa Valliere, Crossroads for Women for Women’s director of inpatient services, recently did a presentation on treating women with addictions. The audience was largely made up of nurses, physicians and other medical staff. For her presentation, women in recovery were asked to share their wisdom about how medical staff might interact with them in medical…
These are the words that Crossroads for Women for Women clinician Faith Sheehan typically starts off with in the first session of her friends and family educational series. Those 4 words, “it’s not your fault,” usually draw a sigh of relief to participants. The 4-week series, “The Effects of Addiction on Friends & Family,” explores…
A recent newsletter sent out by the MSBA Women’s Law Section included some astounding statistics regarding the incidence of depression and addiction in lawyers. The stats were part of an article about a program the group held last fall that explored the “medical and ethical issues facing professional women as a result of depression and…
