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Mobilize Recovery is coming back in 2020!

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Ryan Hampton
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January 30, 2020
Calling all changemakers in addiction recovery advocacy and activism! Mobilize Recovery is coming back this year and we can’t wait to reveal the details and process to get involved and attend. BE THE FIRST TO GET NOTIFIED about the 2020 process, partners, schedule and venue –...

The Voices Project Partners With Google To End Addiction in America

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Ryan Hampton
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September 11, 2019
The Voices Project is proud to collaborate with Google for its Recovery Month launch of the Recover Together Initiative. This groundbreaking collaboration puts recovery voices front and center at a time when millions of Americans are struggling with substance use disorder....

Naloxone Saves Lives

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Ryan Hampton
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August 29, 2019
For people who use opioids---whether their use is intentional or accidental, and whether their substance of choice is prescribed or self-administered---overdose is always a risk. Even people with a tolerance for opioids can experience an overdose. In these life threatening...

Don’t Wait To Be The Change: Mobilize!

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Ryan Hampton
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August 29, 2019
Mobilize Recovery is a nationwide recovery initiative, supported by Facebook and spearheaded by The Voices Project. The initiative’s goal is simple: to create a network of people who are passionate about recovery and motivated to get involved in grassroots efforts to end the...

Substance Use Disorder is a Mental Health Issue

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Ryan Hampton
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August 29, 2019
Addiction is a mental health disorder. Substance use disorder (SUD) is classified as a chronic mental condition, yet the stigma of addiction is so severe that people with SUD are often excluded from the national conversation on mental health. All mental health conditions,...

I Will Never Let My Daughter Be Forgotten

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Ryan Hampton
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January 29, 2019
Heroin stole my daughter and I will never let my girl be forgotten. Through her story I hope to help others. When you have children, you never dream that you will outlive them. Addiction stole my daughter and changed my life forever. My first born, my person, my baby girl, is...

Our Family Was Rocked By Addiction. But We Are Sticking Together Through It.

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Ryan Hampton
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January 24, 2019
I watched as my sister struggled from 2004-2014 with her heroin addiction. She, like so many others at that time especially, started off with Oxycontin and Perc 30's. It was less than a year on those pills, and out of high school, before she was totally addicted. Her once...

Recovery Support Services Gave Me A Path To Long-Term Recovery

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Ryan Hampton
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January 22, 2019
When I think back on the year 2010, I think of the nights spent drinking until I blacked out in a dirty house/apartment/trailer or field if need be, and ingesting lines of whatever was offered to me at the time. I rarely think of the fact that I was going into my senior year of...