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At Odyssey House, we believe in transparency, community, and celebrating progress. Our News Archive is a place where you can explore the stories that have shaped our work—milestones in recovery, moments of advocacy, community events, and the voices of those we serve.
Whether you’re a long-time supporter or just learning about us, this archive offers a window into the heart of our mission.
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New Residential Treatment Program Offers Gender Specific Services for Drug-troubled Adolescent Females
Bronx program is NYC’s first publicly-funded all-girls treatment center In a new approach to treating troubled teen girls, Odyssey House is opening an innovative 16-bed treatment center for girls with substance abuse and related problems, such as emotional or...
Odyssey House Opens Dental Clinic in Family Treatment Center
Odyssey House has opened a full-service dental clinic for men, women, and children in treatment for substance abuse problems. The community-based clinic, located at the Odyssey House Family Center of Excellence in East Harlem, will provide high quality dental services...
Clues to the Future of the Therapeutic Community
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Bodies in Motion, Clean and Sober
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Housing Initiative Helps Reduce Risk of Relapse
$200,000 SAMHSA grant targets individuals coping with homelessness, chemical dependency, and mental illness Odyssey House has been awarded a $200,000 grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to provide housing placement...
A Better High
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Letter to the Editor: Youth and Binge Drinking
To the Editor: "Youthful Binge Drinking Fueled by Boredom of the Open West" (front page, Sept. 2), about under-age drinking, may leave the impression that teenagers in the sparsely populated Plains and Western states are more at risk than teenagers in other parts of...
Our Fall 2006 newsletter is now available!
The Fall 2006 edition of Odyssey House News is now available online. Read about our new housing initiative, latest art show, new services and more. Check it out and let us know what you think in the comments or on our Facebook wall. Click here to read it (pdf). If...
Letter to the Editor: An Anti-Addiction Pill
Benoit Denizet-Lewis (June 25) carefully lays out the evolving scientific approach to treating addiction, and it is promising. The treatment field is at a crossroads. We should find ways to integrate pharmacology with psychological and behavioral interventions so that...
Still Wack
New York Newsday By Rocco Parascandola Twenty years after the height of the crack epidemic, Keith Haring's simple message still speaks loudly It was just another act of graffiti in East Harlem. It even said so on Keith Haring's $25 summons. But when then-Parks...
Lessons Learned from a Drug Scourge
New York Newsday By Sheryl McCarthy When Richard Curtis was living on 119th Street at Fifth Avenue in 1987, life in the East Harlem neighborhood could be described in just a few words. "It was Crack Central," he says. The cheap new form of cocaine that had...
Letter to the Editor: Medical Marijuana, Pro and Con
To the Editor: As a treatment provider, I support the Food and Drug Administration's dismissal of medical benefit from marijuana. Regardless of the heated political debate that swirls around this issue, the fact remains that despite the Institute of Medicine's claim...
Odyssey House Announces Major New Funding For Smoke-Free Program
The New York State Department of Health has awarded Odyssey House a $450,000 grant to help substance abusers in recovery reduce or abstain from smoking. The Odyssey House Case Management Smoking Cessation program is a step-by-step intervention that addresses the...
Our Spring 2006 newsletter is now available!
The Spring 2006 edition of Odyssey House News is now available online. Read about our renovated medical clinic, latest art show, new services and more. Check it out and let us know what you think in the comments or on our Facebook wall. Click here to read it (pdf). If...
Going the Distance
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Odyssey House Expands Mental Health Programs for Patients with SPMI
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Balding, Wrinkled, and Stoned
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Letter to the Editor: Truth, the Whole Truth and Memoirs
In response to this article. To the Editor: Whether or not the author James Frey had a root canal without anesthesia, or spent three days, three months or three years in jail, his depiction of the anguish of addiction and the personal strength required to live...
Old Habits
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Our Winter 2005 newsletter is now available!
The Winter 2005 edition of Odyssey House News is now available online. Read about our services for relapse-prevention, Odyssey House's marathon runners and new initiatives with teens. Check it out and let us know what you think in the comments or on...
Rookie Marathoners Trade Addictions
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Lessons for the Long Run
Our Fall 2005 newsletter is now available!
The Fall 2005 edition of Odyssey House News is now available online. Read about our renovated medical clinic, latest art show, new services and more. Check it out and let us know what you think in the comments or on our Facebook wall. Click here to read it (pdf). If...
Letter to the Editor: Crying Wolf About Meth Abuse?
To the Editor: John Tierney ("Debunking the Drug War," column, Aug. 9) is right that "America has a serious drug problem." The problem is so serious, however, that the danger of overdramatizing the potential of a methamphetamine epidemic is worth risking a loss in...
Odyssey House Develops Pathways to Housing Initiative with $2 Million Grant from SAMHSA
New Initiative Will Provide Treatment and Housing Services for Homeless People in Recovery from Substance Abuse Odyssey House has been awarded a $2 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to develop its Pathways...
Art Shows to Span the Summer
Calling It Quits
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Senior Drug Addicts Increasing
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For Recovering Addicts, a Holiday Hurdle
The Christian Science Monitor By Alexandra Marks (NEW YORK) David Sykes is sending out Christmas cards for the first time in 10 years. A recovering addict, he says he finally feels healed enough to enjoy the holidays. "The holidays have always been somewhat sad for...
Letter to the Editor: Drug Law Reform
It took too long and didn't go far enough, but New York State lawmakers have at last taken the crucial first step in reforming the harshest drug laws in the country ("Hard-won reforms," News, Dec. 8). I applaud these reforms, but I am concerned that billions of...