Articles about Addiction Recovery
Opioids can lure anyone, anywhere from any walk of life into its den of addiction. That the deadly prescription pain medication has found its way into school systems nationwide is a tragic reality. Fortunately for the Charleston County School District – one of the largest districts in the state, with 49,000 students in 83 schools … Read more
(Editor’s Note – This story is the first of a three-part series about the fentanyl crisis in our community, our state and our country.) It happened the week after he got home from a six-month stint overseas in the U.S. Air Force. Meeting up with friends, he was looking forward to getting high and having … Read more
So many of us have been there – young adults trying to find our place in the world, dealing with a variety of different mental health challenges and feeling alone. Luke Shirley, founder and director of the nonprofit Quest in Recovery, has walked this walk, too. And he knew there had to be way to … Read more
In the past, if you were trying to recover from drug addiction, you would be isolated in a form of rehabilitation. But Lantana Recovery Center in Charleston believes the best way to bounce back from substance use disorder is to keep you firmly in the community, with an array of people, steps and connections to … Read more
Detoxification is an important component of a patient’s recovery process from opioid use disorder. Medical experts share that while the detox process is difficult and uncomfortable, it shouldn’t be a deterrent in keeping someone with a substance use disorder from getting help. “When I was in the grips of my opioid addiction, the only thing … Read more
Tyrone Jarmon said that if anyone would have told him 10 years ago that he would be a peer support specialist with the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center’s Substance Treatment and Recovery (STAR) Program, he would have thought they were crazy – mainly because he started his own sobriety treatment program in Asheville, North […]