Southern Recovery Advocacy

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Alcohol-related deaths in the US spiked more than 25% in the first year of the pandemic, study shows The number of deaths in the US involving alcohol jumped 25.5% between 2019 and 2020, the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to research published Friday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The Morning: The opioid crisis Sean Blake was among those who died. He overdosed at age 27 in Vermont, from a mix of alcohol and fentanyl, a synthetic opioid. He had struggled to find effective treatment for his addiction and other potential mental health problems, repeatedly relapsing.

YOU ARE INVITED!

RSVP with this LINK to join the virtual Mississippi Recovery Town Hall Event.

https://actionnetwork.org/events/mississippi-recovery-community-town-hall-event-2/

This event brings together people in recovery from many pathways, impacted family members, mental health advocates , and specialists to shape action around the Mississippi Platform.

Join us in a conversation with some amazing community leaders about how people around the state are creating positive changes for those seeking and/or receiving mental health and substance use recovery services.

Topics of discussion include:

-Solutions that reduce stigma
-Improving access to recovery support services
-Justice Reform
-Ways to address housing issues for people with mental illness and/or substance use disorders

EVENT RSVP PAGE LINK

SEE YOU ON THE 22ND!

I big thank you to Extra Mile, Scott and his crew, and the Tupelo National Golf Club for an amazing event and day! Thank you to all who participated!

One day, not too long ago, you lost everything in the world you held dear, then a man sat down with you and he gave you friendship, understanding, faith, hope, courage and opportunity. Have you ever realized the great value of what this man gave you? These were the tools with which you made a new and better life.

Someone did this for you, so "go and do thou likewise."

Come see us at 10am (Golfer or not) at 10am at the Tupelo Country Club and assist us in building Mississippi's Recovery Community Organization.

Great job Kim!!! Thank you for all you do for Mississippi.

A community of recovery: Advocates share journeys out of addiction TUPELO • If there’s a single thing Kim Benefield has learned in her roughly 20 years in the field, it’s that recovery is about far more than overcoming addiction.

Recovery Walk 2021

Asking for help isn't giving up, it's refusing to give up.

I'm very proud of the Southern Recovery Advocacy team, and especially Executive Director Kim Benefield for working tirelessly to help those who need our compassion the most. Come see us tomorrow.

National Recovery Month event set for Saturday in Tupelo
https://www.djournal.com/news/local/national-recovery-month-event-set-for-saturday-in-tupelo/article_85936d47-7b89-56ca-b7fe-3b0f6d3e684d.html
(Via Daily Journal)

National Recovery Month event set for Saturday in Tupelo TUPELO • An advocacy group wants to share the message that “Recovery is for Everyone” for National Recovery Month.

🔥Act now: Have PBSO carry Narcan Let’s get to 213 signatures by the end of today - can you add yours?

Come be a part of the movement!!

Our Executive Director, Kim Benefield, working selflessly and tirelessly to help the most under represented and/or cared for individuals in the state of Mississippi. Well done!!

Columbus is the only man on record who didn't know where he was going when he set sail, didn't know where he was when he got there, and didn't know where he had been when he got back, and still escaped the reputation of being an alcoholic.

If Recovery paid no further dividends than to get us out of that haphazard, confused and disordered way of living, it would be enough.

Now we at least know which end is up.

June 23

It takes courage, intelligence, initiative and deep emotions to make a really successful fool. The timid, underimaginative, cowardly seldom do.

We as alcoholics made fools of ourselves, it is true, but, in so doing, we experienced more, we lived more, we suffered more. These are the ingredients of a liberal education.

If wisdom could be dissected, there would be a large portion of Folly, Defeat, Suffering and just plain Damned Foolishness in its make-up.

By the same token, our foolishness taught us valuable lessons that could not have been acquired anywhere else.

Overdose Deaths Rose During The War On Drugs, But Efforts To Reduce Them Face Backlash Researchers know how to curb the risks of overdose and disease among drug users, but policymakers are reluctant to allow public health measures that include needle exchanges and access to safer drugs.

If you were asked to give a definition of the AA Program, you could probably come no closer than to say it is a Thinking Program.

Underlying the whole philosophy is a studied effort to change the mental fumbling of the alcoholic to real, profound, constructive thinking.

It was this type of thinking that inspired our movement, and because of the profound thought behind it, it developed the simplicity that makes it understandable to the befogged alcoholic and yet so profound as to confound the wise.

June 14

By the grace of God, we alcoholics have acquired certain characteristics that have made us beneficial to the earth. We have become in fact the salt of the earth.

If, however, we hoard our savour to ourselves and fail to recognize our responsibility to distribute it to those portions of the earth that need it, then have we indeed lost our savour and it is good for nothing but to be cast out and to be trodden underfoot of men.

Nothing is a blessing unless we put it to some constructive use. The wealth of the world is useless to a starving man on an uninhabited and barren island.

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Those who hoard love shall lose it, but those who scatter love about themselves as they move through life find that it takes root and surrounds them on every side.