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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.
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Our Winter 2004 newsletter is now available!
The Winter 2004 edition of Odyssey House News is now available online. Read about our new family treatment center, art gallery, 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 you’d like to...
National Political Leaders Support Odyssey House Relapse Prevention Strategy
Holiday Season Is ‘Bermuda Triangle’ For Potential Substance Abuse Relapse White House Drug Czar And Odyssey House President Unveil Strategy For Maintaining Recovery Treatment experts call it the “Bermuda Triangle” of potential drug and alcohol relapse. The holiday...
Illegal Drug Use: A Hidden — and Growing — Problem Among Older Americans
Newhouse News Service By Chuck McCutcheon Crime and Punishment The five men seated around a basement table, trading talk about grandchildren and doctors' bills, could be mistaken for ordinary retirees. But then they tell their stories: "I started taking...
Our Fall 2004 newsletter is now available!
The Fall 2004 edition of Odyssey House News is now available online. Read about our outpatient services, latest art show, new playground 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...
New Outpatient Service Treats Seniors with Substance Abuse Problems
Odyssey House ElderCare Outpatient Program addresses `hidden epidemic' of drug and alcohol abuse among older Americans. Innovative program made possible by $200,000 grant from The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation. Latest U.S. census report predicts...
A Second Look
City Limits By Phyllis Vine Making art has long been part of healing for addiction and mental illness. At a gallery in East Harlem, it's something more, too: the artists' vision for the future. It was an art opening unlike most in New York. In East Harlem, in the...
Letter to the Editor: Time and Punishment
To the Editor: "Freed From Prison, but Still Paying a Penalty" (news article, Dec. 29) exposes the draconian effects of a criminal justice system whose focus on tough punishment leaves little room for rehabilitation. While punishment for criminal behavior is...
Leading Non-Profit Organization: Odyssey House
Work Life Matters By Peter Provet, Ph.D. Family focused treatment rebuilds communities As one of today's leading providers of substance abuse and mental health treatment, Odyssey House offers a broad range of services focused on helping individuals and...
Surviving and Thriving
New York Newsday By Jeff Pearlman Three young women who have learned, at last, how to be good – make that great –mothers The moment Mabel McCormick hit rock bottom occurred exactly 27 months ago, on a frigid February evening when nothing –absolutely, positively...
Bush’s Drug Plan: A Violation of Church-State Divide?
The Christian Science Monitor By Alexandra Marks Wanda Haskins believes she's fully qualified to head up a successful drug-treatment program. The reason is simple: "Been there, done that," says the former crack addict. Although the Virginia native has no formal...
Today’s More Flexible TC Benefits Diverse Populations
Addiction Professional By Peter Provet, Ph.D. The therapeutic community (TC) model of substance abuse treatment is at an important crossroad in its evolution. Approximately 45 years old, this self-help model was developed to treat single, adult heroin addicts in...
Keep Marijuana Illegal — For Children’s Sake
Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow By Peter Provet, Ph.D. The debate over the legalization of marijuana is of paramount importance to treatment providers, healthcare professionals, educators, criminal-justice officials, families, and the millions of American men, women...
Drug Testing of Adolescents Could Backfire
Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly By Peter Provet, Ph.D. Earlier this summer, the United States Supreme Court ruled that broad-based drug testing in public schools is constitutional. When the justices reached this momentous decision, most of the nation's school kids...
Kicking the Habit (Sort of): Is Abstinence a Losing Battle?
The Wall Street Journal By Tara Parker-Pope For many people who smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol, abstinence seems impossible. Now doctors and public-health officials are debating whether it's even always necessary. A number of medical researchers now believe that...
Start Chewing may be Tobacco Option
The New York Sun By Julia Levy Harm Reduction To Be Topic At Health Symposium If all current smokers in America switched from cigarettes to smokeless tobacco products, 80 times fewer people a year could die of tobacco related illnesses within one generation, an...
Jobs Elude Former Addicts
The Christian Science Monitor By Alexandra Marks (NEW YORK) Throughout the job interview, Georgia Evans waited anxiously for the question to be asked: Have you ever had a drug or alcohol problem? When it wasn't, she didn't volunteer the information. It was a...
Letter to the Editor: Mental Health Models
To the editor: Re "Voiceless, Defenseless and a Source of Cash" (front page, April 30): For too long, the suffering of the mentally ill, some of whom are addicted to drugs, has been someone else's problem. Deinstitutionalization was the right thing to do in the...
Illicit Drug Use Grows Among Elderly
The Christian Science Monitor By Alexandra Marks Susie Richardson is not your average recovering addict. She was 50 years old when curiosity got the better of her and she tried crack cocaine. The result was a "devastating" addiction that for 10 years robbed her...
Drug Strategy Must Address Needs of Different Populations
Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly By Peter Provet, Ph.D. With some fanfare, President Bush announced his national drug control strategy this week. Propelled by an opportunistic association between drug use and terrorism, President Bush did what many presidents before...
Ecstasy Parties On — With Dangerous Results
NEW YORK - Ecstasy, the potentially lethal "love drug," is on the move. Glamorized in the 1990s by the predominantly white and suburban all-night "rave culture," E-pills are now spreading fast into America's rural areas and inner cities. Just ask William Alicea. A...
Letter to the Editor: Staying Clean
Peggy Orenstein's cover article "Staying Clean" drew praise from rehab providers and former users confirming that, as reported, there is no quick fix in treating addiction and no guaranteed cure. Below is the response by Dr. Peter Provet, among the many written by...
Letter to the Editor: Treating Drug Use, Urban and Rural
To the editor: "As Drug Use Drops in Big Cities, Small Towns Confront Upsurge" (front page, Feb. 11) clearly tells America that drug abuse is a great equalizer. It does not segregate by class, race or geography. Cities, small towns and rural areas face similar...
NineOneOne: A Guide to Post-9/11 Recovery Sources
NineOneOne The Daily News By Susan Ferraro Salt in the wounds Among the millions traumatized by the attacks on the World Trade Center were thousands of New Yorkers already struggling, day to day, with recovery from substance abuse or painful or disabling...
Letter to the Editor: OxyContin Abuse
To the editor: Monitoring prescriptions of OxyContin sounds like a good place to start to prevent increased abuse ("Few State Track Prescriptions as Way to Prevent Overdoses," front page, Dec. 21). But we must also increase drug treatment programs and sponsor broader...
Letter to the Editor: Addicted to OxyContin
To the Editor: An important concern missing from the increasing attention paid to abuse of the powerful painkiller OxyContin is the treatment needs of the abuser. Whether or not Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of the drug (news article, Aug. 13), speeds up development...
A Chance to Reconnect for Mentally Ill Addicts
The New York Times By David Rohde Brandi Wells set off from her Upper West Side apartment for East Harlem on Thursday night fighting memories of a decade of failure. With a mixture of hope and dread churning her stomach, Ms. Wells, a 28-year-old artist with cascading...
Residential Drug Treatment for Mothers Shows More Promise Than the War on Drugs
The American Prospect Online By Melissa Paige McNamara Brandy was crawling on the floor near her mother's feet, dressed in her new denim jumper with tightly braided pigtails framing her dimpled face. Her smile hid any sign that in her nine months, Brandy has already...
Prison isn’t the Answer for Darryl
Darryl Strawberry will be sentenced in Tampa tomorrow for violating probation, and a lot of people are rooting for heavy punishment. The details of his seemingly fruitless battle with drug addiction have left the public understandably fed up. To some, the downward...
Letter to the Editor: Choice of a Drug Czar
To the Editor: Re "Tough Conservative Picked for Drug Czar, Officials Say" (news article, April 26). The choice of John P. Walters as drug czar gives us some solace in that at last we have an inkling of President Bush's position on drugs. But reports that Mr. Walters...
Growing Number of Older Addicts Spawns Unusual Treatment Center
Associated Press By Elizabeth LeSure In his 60s, Ramon Loper spent the last few years of his musical career desperately feeding a heroin addiction. He rushed from gig to gig, getting cash and getting high. "And then," he says, "I broke my hip. Thank God!" The members...