BECOMING INVOLVED IN THE CREATION OF THE CERTIFIED PEER RECOVERY SPECIALIST PROGRAM HAS CHANGED ME IN WAYS THAT ARE HARD TO ARTICULATE - How I understand add...

Lisa Margotta Lisa is a person in long term recovery. What that means for her is she hasn’t used a drink or drug since December 26, 2012. I HAVE EXPERIENCED ...

Caroline Bailey Caroline has fulfilled the curricula requirements to obtain her New Jersey State Certification as a Certified Peer Recovery Specialist. She i...

Ella Hi my name is Ella, and I’m an addict. I’m 18 years old, and I’ve lived in Morris County for the majority of my life. I’m a musician, an artist, a stude...

Kelly LaBar Kelly has been in long-term recovery since January 26 2003. She works in the recovery field as a CPRS and Project Coordinator for the Opiate Ove...

Gary Rappold POOR OR RICH, BLACK OR WHITE, BLUE OR WHITE COLLAR, GAY OR STRAIGHT, IT DOESN'T MATTER While I was in the middle of my battle with addiction I l...

James Fox James Fox is a Certified Peer Recovery Specialist at CARES. Are you looking for support in your recovery? Call James Today 973-830-0874. OPIATES AR...

ALICIA COOK Alicia Cook is a best-selling writer and award-winning activist from New Jersey whose work has been featured in numerous media outlets including ...

This is certainly a tough and broad issue. As a licensed, and board certified pain physician, I rarely find an indicated use for chronic use of high dose opi...

ERIKA SHORTWAY Erika Shortway is a person in long term recovery that has turned her experience with her own struggles with addiction into hope to inspire oth...

NOT MY KID Being a parent of an addict I never even thought of the possibility that she would overdose. Always a possibility because it happens but not to my...

MICHAEL CAVALLO Michael Cavallo grew up just outside of Boston, Massachusetts. After injuries cut short his senior year as a college hockey player, Michael p...

My story begins on March 17th 2013 when I got that dreadful call that my son Robert Rebyak age 26, was in the hospital accidental overdose on life support. I...

A little over 3 years ago, it was my second day in detox from prescription medication (Opioids). Off to rehab after a very traumatic and unbearably painful r...

My name is Holly Webb Like many, my story started out being prescribed pain pills.  I was on then for a few years for multiple reasons and one day my Dr said...

THE PERILS OF OPIATES The twilight engenders loneliness, harbinger of wicked fantasies, eliciting images of Erebus. Pain overwhelms mind and body, exacerbat...

A SECOND CHANCE TO DANCE ...a second chance at life, faith and friendship, or morphine and me, what a strange dichotomy” It was dreary and sullen on that fat...