Alcohol and Substance Abuse Advocacy Update

There’s more to being the Discovering Alcoholic than the just the glitz and glamour, I also have to deal with the paparazzi and then there’s the challenge of walking around safely with a billowing green cape. But seriously, for many years my efforts in the recovery field were on a small personal scale, but things have changed in the last year since the governor became involved.

Now I am part of a greater effort, a substance abuse task force that has made available resources I could have never matched while on my own. My first official action with the task force is planning a substance abuse advocacy workshop in my region that will include the participation of prevention, treatment, and recovery professionals as well as law enforcement and government. I will probably push for a location and venue in which the issue of this facility's fate can be discussed in a more factual and productive manner.

Before I wrap this update up I would like to mention the good work my friend Erin over at WhatWinnersDo.com has put together in support of those beginning a medically assisted recovery using suboxone. It’s a forum called the Suboxone Help Spot, a place where people can share their experiences and hopefully filter out the misinformation floating around on this stuff and get some real answers. She also has a popular forum on Cymbalta withdrawals that she learned about first hand as she tapered off this drug.

I’ll do another update once I have a date and specifics on the outreach program. If you have a relevant issue or wish me to highlight your advocacy, please use the contact page and I’ll be sure to include it in the next post.