Behavioral Health News, Summer 2024 By Peter Provet, Ph.D. President & CEO, Odyssey House As the leader of Odyssey House, one of the largest non-profit residential and outpatient treatment providers in New York City, I have witnessed firsthand the growing need for specialized services tailored…
“Here & Now” WBUR Deepa Fernandes from WBUR speaks with Dr. Peter Provet, an adolescent psychologist and president of Odyssey House, a sober living and addiction treatment center in New York City, about how substance abuse affects a teen’s mental health. Click…
USA Today By Dan Morrison Hunter Biden’s addiction to crack cocaine was so bad, he recalled, that he alienated his children and his famous father despite their repeated attempts to help. It was so bad that he lived among a pool of sleazy hangers-on in grimy…
By Monica Morales WPIX A nonprofit called Odyssey House Family Center on Wards Island is one of the only mother-and-children treatment programs in New York City. It is helping more than 50 moms get sober and lead better lives.
By James Ford PIX11 RANDALL’S ISLAND, N.Y. (PIX11) — Despite Tropical Storm Ophelia’s non-stop rainfall, steady winds, and occasionally strong gusts; a few hundred participants, supporters, and staff at an addiction recovery program were outside for hours to promote health and well-being.
In the second of a two-part series on fentanyl, the Search Engine podcast features an incisive interview with a former opioid dealer and Odyssey House client who has turned his life around in treatment and is on a mission to prevent other people from becoming addicted…