Minda Brown is one of Olmsted County's 62 certified peer recovery specialists who help people navigate recovery from addiction. Kyros Certified Peer Recovery Specialist Minda Brown pours a glass of ...

Nine inmates at Buckingham Correctional Center recently became the first individuals incarcerated in a Virginia Department of Corrections facility to receive certification as Peer Recovery Specialists ...

Driving by, you wouldn’t realize that the Horizon House in Duluth had so much transformation happening inside. There is space for 10 men who are living in recovery. In the past six months, Horizon ...

Wisconsin Secure Program Facility in Boscobel, a maximum security prison where the peer specialist program started. | Photo courtesy Wisconsin Department of Corrections William Bowers is incarcerated ...

The Carroll County Board of Commissioners proclaimed September to be Recovery Month, and one of those in the Health Department helping people try to escape substance abuse is certified peer recovery ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — As the battle against the opioid crisis in Tennessee continues, the number of people who have gone through recovery wanting to help others through a state program is getting ...

THEY'VE BEEN THERE: From left, Philip Cooper, Jenna Woodman, Dillon Moss and Brandon Manson are part of the peer support specialist team in the Investments Supporting Partnerships in Recovery ...

Now, all in long-term recovery, they work full time at the Richmond Behavioral Health Authority as certified peer recovery specialists, trained professionals who offer support and their own lived ...

WHO ARE STRUGGLING WITH ADDICTION. AFTER A WHILE, I JUST DUG INTO THE FACT THAT I WAS TIRED AND WANTED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. THIS IS DUANE BRADLEY. WHILE HE DESCRIBES HIS BATTLE WITH DRUG ...

The Howard County Library System is offering free opportunities for people experiencing substance or alcohol use to connect with Certified Peer Recovery Specialists in partnership with the Howard ...

French novelist Victor Hugo said nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. The phrase captures the momentum in this year’s legislative session for HB 795 and SB 282, bills that would ...