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Month: June 2024

Recovery Opioid Overdose Team (ROOT)

June 11, 2024
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Tamera Lewis’s experience as a person in long-term recovery makes her particularly effective in ROOT, a program of Home of New Vision.  By Christina Mersereau ROOT stands for “recovery opioid overdose team.” The program, still relatively new, relies on community involvement and support from CMH (Community Mental Health), the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Department, and Home of New Vision (HNV). Tamera Lewis is HNV’s sole team member at present, and she loves her job.  “This job has brought me back to life inside. I didn’t know what my role was supposed to be, where I fit in. Now, with ROOT, I…

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One Woman’s Story

June 11, 2024
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| Annual Appeal 2019, General Recovery

By Christina Mersereau, rewritten from the original by Aileen Vazquez This is a true story. Zoe is not her real name. Zoe, 26, came to Home of New Vision a month after her grandmother took her to detox, and learned she was pregnant. She had hoped that by quitting the substances and relying on her love for her other children, that she could get back on her own feet herself. She found she could not—it was just too hard. Zoe had experienced a great deal of pain and trauma in her life from emotional and physical abuse, and found comfort…

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The Reaching Out

June 11, 2024
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By Dave LaFave A message to the newcomer… AA, NA, Smart, Refuge, Hip, Detox, CA, OA, CMA or any other alphabet variation of “Please Help Me Stop Hurting Myself.”  “Reach out? To whom please. WHO am I supposed to reach out to?”  “No one waits for me.”  “No one cares.”  “My sisters? Nah. They have families already. They have things going on. And they don’t care.  My partner? Nah. I’ve pissed them off enough already and anyway they could care less.  Friends? No one will talk to me since that night at the game when I puked in that girls…

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Finding Your Fit

June 11, 2024
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By Ryan Sawicki Seventy-five percent of people who could be diagnosed with Substance Use Disorder end up giving up substances or other unhealthy activities on their own. For the other 25%, treatment or mutual support groups are often other options for them to begin their recovery. We’ve come a long way since Bill Wilson founded AA in a dusty church basement in 1935 in Akron, Ohio. 12-step groups were the bulk of treatment options that were available for most of the 80+ years since AA was founded, and other pathways to recovery have started blooming in cities all around the…

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Language and Stigma

June 11, 2024
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By Tim Shewcraft, 2019 Does language have effect because it is powerful or, rather, is language powerful because it has effect? While these questions may differ only slightly, the implications of their answers could not be more dissimilar. To affirm the former would be to say that language has power from the moment that it leaves the mouth of the speaker; whereas, an affirmation of the latter would imply that language derives its power only upon entering the ear of the one spoken to. Now, imagine that after much debate consisting of a lot of big words and confusing loops…

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Can you help?

June 11, 2024
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| Annual Appeal 2019

Dear Friends, I’m asking you to join us in our battle to combat addiction and stigma in our community. Your gift–any amount–will help us SO MUCH as we continue to fight the opioid crisis and the chaos and violence that comes with it. Your money goes directly to our educational programs, to help keep drugs out of the hands of our children. To our treatment programs, where we heal individuals so they can start the healing in their families. To the hospitals, where our Recovery Coaches help overdose patients brought back from the dead (with Narcan), to find recovery and…

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Home of New Vision’s Recovery Coaches are Battling the Opioid Epidemic One Patient at a Time

June 11, 2024
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| Annual Appeal 2019

You might walk past them on the street and never know Robert Johnson and Sundae Maas are modern-day heroes. Quiet and unassuming, Robert could be a college professor, with his close-cropped gray hair, the button-down collar shirt and narrow, black-framed glasses. Sundae has the “rock star,” personality, with her blonde hair, big smile and fashionable tastes. But, different as they are, Robert and Sundae share their passion and love in fighting the opioid epidemic, while tirelessly helping others. In long-term recovery themselves, both are Recovery Coaches with HNV’s Project ASSERT, Sundae stationed in the emergency room at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ypsilanti, and Robert at the Psychiatric…

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Ryan’s Story

June 11, 2024
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| Annual Appeal 2019

Ryan S. grew up in Wayne County, Michigan, and at age 15 was “dabbling in pot and alcohol.” At 16, after having oral surgery, he was prescribed Vicodin for pain. He immediately liked the drug, and wanted more. Ryan’s use slowly escalated until, by his senior year in high school, he was a daily user of Oxycontin. Ryan worked hard and had money, but even so, his habit was costly: $40-$50 for a single Oxycontin pill! Like many people addicted to pills, eventually it just cost too much, and Ryan switched to heroin.  His life took a turn for the worse. Overwhelmed by his addiction, Ryan lost the trust and support of his family,…

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