Still Wack
New York Newsday By Rocco Parascandola Twenty years after the height of the crack epidemic, Keith Haring's simple message still speaks loudly It was just another act of graffiti in East Harlem. It even said so on Keith Haring's $25 summons. But when then-Parks...
Lessons Learned from a Drug Scourge
New York Newsday By Sheryl McCarthy When Richard Curtis was living on 119th Street at Fifth Avenue in 1987, life in the East Harlem neighborhood could be described in just a few words. "It was Crack Central," he says. The cheap new form of cocaine that had...
Letter to the Editor: Medical Marijuana, Pro and Con
To the Editor: As a treatment provider, I support the Food and Drug Administration's dismissal of medical benefit from marijuana. Regardless of the heated political debate that swirls around this issue, the fact remains that despite the Institute of Medicine's claim...
Odyssey House Announces Major New Funding For Smoke-Free Program
The New York State Department of Health has awarded Odyssey House a $450,000 grant to help substance abusers in recovery reduce or abstain from smoking. The Odyssey House Case Management Smoking Cessation program is a step-by-step intervention that addresses the...
Our Spring 2006 newsletter is now available!
The Spring 2006 edition of Odyssey House News is now available online. Read about our renovated medical clinic, 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...
Going the Distance
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Odyssey House Expands Mental Health Programs for Patients with SPMI
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Balding, Wrinkled, and Stoned
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Letter to the Editor: Truth, the Whole Truth and Memoirs
In response to this article. To the Editor: Whether or not the author James Frey had a root canal without anesthesia, or spent three days, three months or three years in jail, his depiction of the anguish of addiction and the personal strength required to live...
Old Habits
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