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Springs Recovery Connection Makes Addiction Recovery a Team Effort
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The country’s opioid epidemic, a plague since the 1990s, has awakened the public to a new understanding about substance use: who it impacts and how prevalent it truly is in society. However, though the problem is well-publicized, the stigma of drug and alcohol use still leaves many people feeling alone in the struggle to overcome addiction. Springs Recovery Connection (SRC) is a nonprofit community organization working to address that stigma …

CSPD’s Homeless Outreach Team has two additional officers as a part of program expansion
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The City of Colorado Springs wants to expand the police department’s Homeless Outreach Team (HOT). The HOT team now has two more officers for the program after the positions were approved in the new city budget. On Monday, the HOT team’s supervisor, Sgt. Olav Chaney said the team arrested several trespassers…
3rd Annual Rally
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Peer-to-Peer Training
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Viewing of the “Anonymous People”
THE ANONYMOUS PEOPLE IS A FEATURE DOCUMENTARY FILM about the over 23 million Americans living in long-term recovery from alcohol and other drug addiction. Deeply entrenched social stigma have kept recovery voices silent and faces hidden for decades. The vacuum has been filled with sensational mass media depictions of people with addiction that perpetuate a…
The Pathway from Addiction to Recovery
The opioid epidemic and struggles with substance abuse have been in the headlines more often over the last five years. From discussions in congress and the state capitol, it’s becoming an issue increasingly impacting more Coloradans. “There’s a stereotype that people have in their minds I believe of who the average victim of an overdose…