When the opioid crisis hit my family it did so with the force of a wrecking ball, destroying everything in its wake. My family was lucky; our story has a happy ending. In the years since, as I watched the crisis continue to ravage...
Eddie Greyfox Burgess delivers curbside wellness
Nothing draws a crowd like a turquoise 1965 Ford Fairlane shining in the sun—and that’s exactly what Eddie Greyfox Burgess was looking for in a “wellness mobile.”
“It was contemplating its life mission and its personal worth,” Burgess says,...
Mike Ouellette says the lowest point of his life was November 14, 2014. He had been struggling for a long time. He had lost his parents to cancer, and a sibling had also been diagnosed with cancer.
Mike had moved from his northern Maine hometown...
At the intersection of a pandemic and an epidemic, telemedicine revolutionizes addiction treatment.
When Dr. Ted Logan of Maine Behavioral Healthcare transitioned his substance use disorder practice to mostly telemedicine, COVID-19 was still at least three years in the future. For him, the impetus...
Penobscot Nation’s Healing to Wellness Court weaves cultural connections into drug court program
Rhonda Decontie grew up tagging along with her father, Frank Decontie, an addiction recovery counselor, to 12-step meetings where she would recite The Serenity Prayer along with the adults. They lived in...
How does a girl from Lewiston get sexually trafficked?
And then become a leader in the recovery movement?
Tricia Grant grew up exposed to alcohol, drugs, and sexual abuse and, by the time she was 12, she was struggling with housing stability. At 14, she was...
