Our Fall 2004 newsletter is now available!
The Fall 2004 edition of Odyssey House News is now available online. Read about our outpatient services, latest art show, new playground 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...
New Outpatient Service Treats Seniors with Substance Abuse Problems
Odyssey House ElderCare Outpatient Program addresses `hidden epidemic' of drug and alcohol abuse among older Americans. Innovative program made possible by $200,000 grant from The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation. Latest U.S. census report predicts...
A Second Look
City Limits By Phyllis Vine Making art has long been part of healing for addiction and mental illness. At a gallery in East Harlem, it's something more, too: the artists' vision for the future. It was an art opening unlike most in New York. In East Harlem, in the...
Letter to the Editor: Time and Punishment
To the Editor: "Freed From Prison, but Still Paying a Penalty" (news article, Dec. 29) exposes the draconian effects of a criminal justice system whose focus on tough punishment leaves little room for rehabilitation. While punishment for criminal behavior is...
Leading Non-Profit Organization: Odyssey House
Work Life Matters By Peter Provet, Ph.D. Family focused treatment rebuilds communities As one of today's leading providers of substance abuse and mental health treatment, Odyssey House offers a broad range of services focused on helping individuals and...
Surviving and Thriving
New York Newsday By Jeff Pearlman Three young women who have learned, at last, how to be good – make that great –mothers The moment Mabel McCormick hit rock bottom occurred exactly 27 months ago, on a frigid February evening when nothing –absolutely, positively...
Bush’s Drug Plan: A Violation of Church-State Divide?
The Christian Science Monitor By Alexandra Marks Wanda Haskins believes she's fully qualified to head up a successful drug-treatment program. The reason is simple: "Been there, done that," says the former crack addict. Although the Virginia native has no formal...
Today’s More Flexible TC Benefits Diverse Populations
Addiction Professional By Peter Provet, Ph.D. The therapeutic community (TC) model of substance abuse treatment is at an important crossroad in its evolution. Approximately 45 years old, this self-help model was developed to treat single, adult heroin addicts in...
Keep Marijuana Illegal — For Children’s Sake
Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow By Peter Provet, Ph.D. The debate over the legalization of marijuana is of paramount importance to treatment providers, healthcare professionals, educators, criminal-justice officials, families, and the millions of American men, women...
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 kids...
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