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...
by Carolyn Abrams | Sep 17, 2022 | in the news, Run for Your Life
By James Ford PIX11 RANDALL’S ISLAND, Manhattan (PIX11) — September is National Recovery Month, and PIX11 once again showed its support for people in their journeys over addiction through our commitment to the Run For Your Life. The event is organized by Odyssey...
by Carolyn Abrams | Jul 12, 2022 | GRCR, in the news, mothers
With treatment often difficult to access – especially for Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) families – intervention from child protective services usually stops short of providing the resources families need. Journalist Pamela Appea of Prism talked to...
