WOMEN'S GRATITUDE CELEBRATION AT
ADCARE NORTH DARTMOUTH!
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Current and former clients gathered to share their struggles, gratitude, and hope at the Women's Gratitude Celebration hosted by the Women's Group at AdCare North Dartmouth November 8th from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m.
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"Seeing a group of women come together to talk about their everyday struggles in sobriety and how they remain grateful through those struggles was moving. The Dartmouth Outpatient Women's Group has something special and you could hear it when they spoke!" --
Micaela Manzone, AdCare Community Services Representative for Southeastern MA
One member shared an amazing letter that she wrote to her disease and to herself in recovery. Here it is!
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For more information or to enroll in the Women's Early Recovery Group at AdCare North Dartmouth, 88 Faunce Corner Road, Suite 260, please call
508-999-1102.
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ENJOY HOLIDAY FUN IN RECOVERY!
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"Your entire life changes. You have the opportunity to be the best that you can be."
"I have more fun. I have hobbies that I forgot I enjoyed."
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Come out and support recovery! Enjoy holiday
fun in recovery!
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MEMBERSHIP & HOLIDAY CELEBRATION!
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 5-8 PM
MECHANICS HALL, 321 MAIN ST., WORCESTER, MA
Learn more about the Massachusetts Organization for Addiction Recovery:
MOAR
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2ND ANNUAL DECK THE HALLS!
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6 @ 5-8 PM
Holiday Bow Making & Tree Decorating!
Recovery Speaker!
Holiday Fare & Desserts!
ALL FRIENDS OF ADCARE ARE WELCOME!
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CHECK OUT ADCARE FACEBOOK FOR
FRIENDS EVENTS!
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REVIEW OF YOUR TREATMENT EXPERIENCE!
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Share a review of your treatment experience at AdCare
to help those struggling with addiction make a well-informed decision about their recovery. Please add your treatment review by clicking on the links below:
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Show how recovery changes lives!
Share your journey on the
STA
GES OF RECOVERY PROJECT
!
This powerful project, housed on RECOVERY.ORG, demonstrates the transformative process of recovery by contrasting a patient's intake photo with photos showing progression over their first year in recovery!
- Your full name and email address. A release form to sign will be sent to you!
- 3 photos from intake or during active use, 6-months in recovery, and a current photo
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SUPPORT FOR FAMILY & FRIENDS
COPING WITH DEATH FROM SUBSTANCE USE
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Some of the challenges of coping with a death from substance use are unique, emphasized Franklin Cook, MA, CPC, who presented,
"Understanding Grief after Death from Substance Use" at AdCare Hospital on September 11, 2019.
Franklin Cook is a peer grief helper, trainer, advocate, and a director of Support After a Death by Overdose (SADOD), a project that hopes to strengthen the capacity and effectiveness of peer support in Massachusetts for people experiencing grief associated with overdose. Mr. Cook has also grieved the death of his father -- who struggled with alcohol use disorder -- to suicide.
"Any death brings with it essential tasks of grief that need to be worked through as part of the grieving process. There are, however, unique features of grief following a death from substance use, as well as specific challenges and solutions to interacting with those who are affected by a death from substance use."
-- Franklin Cook, Director of SADOD
The role of substance use in the death of a loved one, the bereaved's relationship with the deceased, trauma, and stigma are among the many factors that may impact the grief experience after a death from substance use.
READ MORE
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HOPE, HEALING & RECOVERY
GROUP AT ADCARE WORCESTER
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"Open to anyone affected by grief, loss, or trauma, the Hope, Healing, and Recovery Group focuses on helping members heal from their grief, loss, and trauma, while living their lives in recovery,"
said Maegan Kelley, MSW, the clinician facilitating the new group at AdCare Worcester Outpatient..
Members are encouraged to write about any grief, loss and/or trauma-related struggles that they experience during the week. They have the opportunity during the group check-in to talk about their challenges and how the other members can best support them in their recovery.
"It's important for members to identify and address their grief, loss, and trauma responses, such as flashbacks associated with PTSD,"
said Ms. Kelley. The Hope, Healing & Recovery Group covers the different types of grief, loss, and trauma such as expected vs. unexpected, and bereavement vs. mourning, as well as their mental, physical, and spiritual effects,
"We spend a lot of time talking about how members are dealing with specific grief/trauma triggers and discussing healthy ways to cope and heal,"
said Ms. Kelley.
For information and/or to enroll in the Hope, Healing, and Recovery Group, Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at AdCare Worcester Outpatient, please call
508-453-3053.
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FAMILY, ADDICTION & SETTING BOUNDARIES
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Choosing Wisely
Within all of our relationships we can choose ourselves and still be kind. We can choose ourselves and say good-bye if we must. What we cannot do is choose others at the expense of
our health and happiness
. All this does is provide space for people to play victim, be a martyr, guilt-trip us, or become successfully manipulative when they are in fact responsible for themselves and how they see the world. They are responsible for their pain, just as we are responsible for our own.
Setting boundaries
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THE MANY BENEFITS OF ADCARE FAMILY PROGRAMS
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Family counseling, education, and support can help family members and friends begin to heal from the harmful effects of substance.
Here are a few examples of the benefits of participating in AdCare Family Programs:
- Removes much of the shame and stigma of substance use, allowing for honesty and positivity moving forward.
- Family members are better educated about substance use disorders and recovery, and better prepared to be supportive and help the patient avoid relapse in the future.
- Loved ones can rebuild their own lives and relationships with one another.
- Family members can learn how their actions may have contributed to or enabled substance use.
- Talking things out with professional counselors in a neutral forum can help everyone communicate more honestly, leading to a strengthened family unit.
AdCare provides a variety of family treatment, education, and support services for families.
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ADCARE HOSPITAL
107 Lincoln Street, Worcester, MA
P: 800-345-3552 or 508-799-9000
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FAMILY & FRIENDS SUPPORT GROUP
Open to the Community
Thursdays, 6:30 - 8:00 PM
Founders Room- lower level
Facilitated by an experienced professional, meetings offer ongoing, therapeutic support in a group-mentoring setting. Members are encouraged to discuss how they are feeling and coping with the effects of another’s substance use or recovery.
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LEARN TO COPE
Open to the Community
Central MA Meeting is held at
AdCare Hospital,
BCRB - lower level
Thursdays, 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Learn to Cope offers education, resources, peer support and hope for parents and family members coping with a loved one that is dependent on opioids or other drugs. Meetings are a safe place for members to share their experiences, ask questions, learn about substance use, and listen to guest speakers who are either in long-term recovery or professionals in the field.
Overdose Education and free Narcan
(a medication used to reverse opioid overdose) are available at every meeting.
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ADCARE OUTPATIENT SERVICES
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FAMILY COUNSELING
Family members are encouraged to participate in outpatient counseling to increase their understanding of substance use and learn how to manage its effects on their lives.
FAMILY INFORMATIONAL PROGRAMS
Open to the Community
AdCare Outpatient’s
complimentary
Family Informational Programs provide substance use education and support. Family Programs are open to anyone concerned with the substance use of a family member or friend and are held at all of our AdCare Outpatient locations:
AdCare Boston Outpatient
50 Congress Street, Boston, MA
P: 617-227-2622
Last Thursday of the month @ 6:30 PM
AdCare Quincy Outpatient
1419 Hancock Street, Quincy, MA
P: 617-328-0639
1st Thursday of the month @ 6:00 PM
AdCare North Dartmouth Outpatient
88 Faunce Corner Road
North Dartmouth, MA
P: 508-999-1102
4th Wednesday of the month
@ 6:00 PM
AdCare Worcester Outpatient
95 Lincoln Street, Worcester, MA
P: 508-453-3053
4th Wednesday of the month
@ 6:00 PM
AdCare West Springfield Outpatient
117 Park Avenue, W. Springfield, MA
P: 413-209-3124
2nd Wednesday of the month
@ 6:00 PM
AdCare Warwick Outpatient
400 Bald Hill Road, Warwick RI
P: 401-732-1500
First & Last Tuesday of the month
@ 6:30 PM
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We are always looking for encouraging stories, poems, tips, works of art, etc. to share. If you or someone you know would like to see your piece published anonymously, please send it to
mpapcsy@adcare.com
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