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...

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...

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...

Where clean and sober includes a hairdo

  The New York Times By Felicia R. Lee Her eyes didn’t match the rather ordinary details conveyed in a cursory glance: a middle-aged woman, small pieces of jewelry, demure sweater set, tentative posture. Her eyes had seen hell. She came on opening day at...