By Naami Resnick, M.S., LGPC, NCC Recovery is a word that gets thrown around a lot. Someone can recover from an illness. A person can recover an item they’ve lost. In the world of addictions, recovery is the healing process and it is an ongoing, ever evolving process. It’s more of a verb than a …
Last week, Jewish Community Services, Sol Levinson & Bros., the Edward A. Myerberg Center and the Baltimore Board of Rabbis hosted a community forum, Confronting the Opioid Epidemic. The event brought together public health advocates, treatment professionals, people in recovery and concerned community members to talk about the pervasiveness of opioid use and addiction, the …
By Elizabeth Trabert Piper If someone had asked me four years ago how I would react if I found my mother on the floor after an accidental alcohol overdose, I would have told them that I would hyperventilate, scream or cry hysterically. But that’s not what happened. When I found my mother lying motionless next …
Guest Blogger: Maryland Addiction Recovery Center JCS would like to thank the Maryland Addiction Recovery Center for allowing us to share their very important message to parents: Being a parent is an incredibly wonderful and life-changing experience that only those who have children will understand. Parents only want what is best for their children and …
By Karen James, LCSW-C Why do community groups, news sources, city and state task forces and the White House say we are in the midst of an epidemic? What exactly is a heroin epidemic? To understand this, we need to put aside what we knew, or thought we knew, about both epidemics and drug addiction. …
By Robyn Geller Sometimes there’s a story in the news that hits you because it’s incredibly sad. The story of Bobbi Kristina Brown is one of those stories. Her mother, the amazingly talented and equally tortured Whitney Houston, died tragically three years ago. Most of us remember the circumstances of Houston’s death — found unconscious …
By Howard Reznick, LCSW-C The “compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance (as heroin, nicotine, or alcohol) characterized by tolerance and by well-defined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal; broadly: persistent compulsive use of a substance known by the user to be harmful.” That’s the definition of addiction, according to Webster’s Dictionary. But that definition …
By Susan Kurlander, Health Educator The kids are back in school and families are trying to get a handle on the new schedule. With more to cram into each day, eating dinner as a family may fall by the wayside. “Family Day – A Day to Eat Dinner with Your Children,” organized by CASA, the …
