Peer Support And The Path To Recovery
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Overcoming addiction to alcohol and illicit drugs can seem impossible but there is hope!
Have you heard of Peer Support? Simply put Peer Supporters are people who have been successful in the recovery process who help others experiencing similar situations.
Listen in as Adam talks to Roanna Gets Down Often, Peer Support Specialist and Pam Ponich, LCPC about what peer support is, how it functions and we hear stories from Roanna about how it has made an impact in her life and those she serves!
Substance Use Disorder affects around 1 in 12 American adults. Provisional data from CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics indicate that there were an estimated 100,306 drug overdose deaths in the United States during 12-month period ending in April 2021, an increase of 28.5% from the 78,056 deaths during the same period the year before.
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