by Carolyn | Jun 6, 2024 | in the news, marijuana, mental health, teens
“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...
by Carolyn | Jun 2, 2024 | addiction, Dr. Peter Provet, in the news
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 hotel...
by Carolyn | Mar 11, 2024 | Family Center, in the news, Women's History Month
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. PIX11 News got a rare look inside its...
by Carolyn Abrams | Sep 23, 2023 | in the news, Run for Your Life
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...
by Carolyn Abrams | Aug 18, 2023 | fentanyl, in the news
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...
by Carolyn Abrams | Mar 3, 2023 | call to action, commentary, Dr. Peter Provet, in the news, Letters to the Editor, Opioid epidemic
In today’s New York Times, Dr. Peter Provet, Odyssey House President & CEO, responds to a recent article [“One Year Inside a Radical New Approach to America’s Overdose Crisis,” by Jeneen Interlandi (Opinion, Feb. 26)], and accompanying editorial [“America...
