Tom Coderre

Loved sharing the lived experience stage today with some of the best!

Commencement Forum: Action, Collaboration, Engagement: Solving the opioid public health crisis with Dennis Bailer, Francesca Beaudoin, M.D., Ph.D., Ashish K. Jha, M.D., MPH. Appreciated this important conversation at an institution that has been committed to finding solutions to addiction for many decades.

Happy ! Thank you to mental health providers, for your life-saving leadership in substance use prevention, mental health promotion, treatment & recovery.

Excited to be joining a powerful lineup of 33 presenters in the Recovery 2.0 Life Beyond Addiction Conference hosted by author and addiction recovery expert, Tommy Rosen. The free online conference will take place from May 8-12. Learn more and register: https://LifeBeyondAddiction.com. My topic is “Building a Recovery-Centered System of Care.”

Attention creative recovery peeps!

SAMHSA Announces Art of Recovery Project, Highlighting Role of Artistic Creativity in Mental Health and Substance Use Recovery Today, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is launching the 2024 Art of Recovery project. This initiative highlights the impact of art on mental health and substance use recovery, showcasing how creative expression can serve as a pathway to solace, healing, and emp...

Thanks for asking me to participate again this year Tommy Rosen, I appreciate you making all this life changing information available to help more people find what we’ve found!

This weekend…

Gather all unneeded medications for . Safely dispose of them at a drop-off location to prevent misuse and protect our communities.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3Tu1Ols

Let’s celebrate the existence of Collegiate Recovery during ! Collegiate Recovery is a testament to resilience, hope, and the power of community. Together, we’re rewriting the narrative and creating spaces where students thrive in recovery. Join us by wearing purple on Collegiate Recovery Day!

Modern Warrior LIVE is an immersive music and narrative experience that chronicles the story of US Army veteran Jaymes Poling and his journey through three deployments in Afghanistan and subsequent transition back home. Narrated by Poling, this autobiographical production weaves together his story with a cast of world-class artists in multiple genres led by internationally-acclaimed trumpeter Dominick Farinacci. This production shares a personal and emotional journey of the challenges of military service and the experience veterans face when they return back home, and it is a catalyst for meaningful conversation about mental health.

I’m in Alberta this week to see how they are transforming their current behavioral health services into a Recovery Oriented System of Care. They have been working hard to build recovery capital in the Province and sharing their ideas and model across Canada. Thank you for your leadership Premier Danielle Smith, Chief of Staff Marshall Smith and to Last Door Recovery Society for hosting this important Recovery Capital Conference - Overcoming Addiction and providing a platform for all perspectives!

We can all play a role in saving lives from an increasingly poisonous drug supply. Thank you President Joe Biden for making more resources available for our families, friends, workplaces and communities.

Biden administration announces focus on ‘flooding the zone’ with life-saving overdose reversal medicine | CNN The Biden administration launched an initiative Wednesday that it describes as a nationwide call to increase training on and access to life-saving opioid overdose reversal medications, dubbed the Challenge to Save Lives from Overdose.

Expanding access to treatment is at the heart of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Overdose Prevention Strategy. Prevention, Harm Reduction and Recovery are also important pillars of the work. This remains an all hands on deck effort and SAMHSA remains committed to it.

First on CNN: To ‘meet people where they are,’ HHS to allow opioid disorder treatment via telemedicine, at home | CNN Some people being treated for opioid use disorders can now take home doses of their methadone medications or schedule telehealth appointments in ways they haven’t always been able to do before.

I made a new sign for my art studio window🫶🏻🥰❣️

Love this piece! 🎶🎼🎵 Thanks NPR Music!

For Dry January, we ask a music critic for great songs about not drinking Plenty of songs celebrate drinking. But what about music that finds joy in — well, not drinking? Music critic Sasha Frere-Jones reflects upon a few songs that have been meaningful to his sobriety.

Came across this holiday survival guide on In The Rooms for people in recovery from Caroline Beidler MSW, it has 4 great tips and some other good info. Check it out if the season has you on edge! 🎄🎅🎁

www.intherooms.com

💡 We want your ideas! If you’re 14-18 and in the U.S., give us your best ideas about educating your peers about fentanyl and fake pills & preventing overdose. Ideas could include any innovative ways to reach youth on this topic, such as social media posts, vlogs, podcasts, video journals, etc. The top 6 ideas will be awarded a $5,000 prize each, and up to 25 youth will receive a $2,000 honorable mention prize. https://www.challenge.gov/?challenge=fentalert-empowering-youth-for-safer-choices---samhsa-fentanyl-awareness-youth-challenge

Thanks to Keith Humphreys & Jonathan Caulkins for these thoughtful well researched policymaking recommendations on synthetics. Best advice: "Be generous toward those who are struggling, including those suffering from drug addiction"
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

New Drugs, Old Misery: The Challenge of Fentanyl, M**h, and Other Synthetic Drugs If, in 2015, someone had told you that the number of overdose deaths caused solely by the two most historically lethal drugs—heroin and cocaine—would drop by more than half by 2021, you would likely have assumed that the overdose crisis in the U.S. was finally coming to an end. Instead, drug ove...

While the data is very concerning, I appreciate the new infographics our SAMHSA team added to the 2022 report! It makes the data consumable and sharable. There's even one that shows the number of people in recovery. Read the full report below or see the infographics here: https://samhsa.gov/data/report/2022-nsduh-infographic

: The National Survey on Drug Use and Health is newly available.
Find the newly published 2022 results here: https://www.samhsa.gov/data/release/2022-national-survey-drug-use-and-health-nsduh-releases

Keep it straightforward and secure: Clear out your medicine cabinet to prevent potential theft or misuse of your unused medications.

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