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Carvell Wallace, author of 'Another Word for Love'

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Carvell Wallace searches for 'Another Word for Love'

12:31pm June 18, 2024

In his new memoir, Another Word for Love, Carvell Wallace lays out his journey to find self-acceptance after a childhood colored by instability. Host Brittany Luse sits down with Carvell to talk about how he built new language around love and his new perspectives on recovery and healing.

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A man wearing an Israeli flag looks toward ambulances outside a hospital in Petah Tikva, Israel, on Nov. 24.

Some Israeli hostages are coming home. What will their road to recovery look like?

7:01am December 02, 2023

by Rachel Treisman

Dozens of women and kids held hostage by Hamas for nearly two months returned home to Israel this week. Experts say reacclimating is a process — and there are ways professionals and parents can help.

Health & Safety

Forsyth County will use opioid settlement money to fund harm reduction kits, support services

3:32pm May 05, 2023

by April Laissle

Forsyth County Commissioners this week agreed to allot over a million dollars to programs aimed at addressing the opioid epidemic.

5280 High School in Denver is one of 43 secondary schools in the U.S. with a program designed for students recovering from substance use disorder and related mental health disorders.

Health & Safety

Recovery high schools help kids heal from an addiction and build a future

5:03am April 04, 2023

by Stephanie Daniel

A few dozen high schools across the U.S. combine education with treatment for substance use disorders to keep kids in recovery — and in school.

Nina Feldman, a reporter for member station WHYY in Philadelphia, had COVID-19 symptoms that persisted into what she calls "medium COVID."

Health & Safety

People with 'medium COVID' are caught in a gray area of recovery with little support

1:01pm March 17, 2022

by Nina Feldman

Even if you don't have long COVID, it can still take weeks to recover — much longer than the isolation period implies. Millions of Americans are finding that this still majorly disrupts their lives.

Mike Marshall is the co-founder and director of Oregon Recovers. He says he's concerned the state is failing to expand addiction treatment capacity in a strategic way. "So we put the cart before the horse," he says.

National

Oregon's Pioneering Drug Decriminalization Experiment Is Now Facing The Hard Test

12:11pm June 19, 2021

by Eric Westervelt

Oregon's bold move to decriminalize small amounts of all hard drugs and expand treatment is now meeting the reality of implementation as the treatment community is divided over the way forward.

Will wipes away sweat on a hot day while walking down Willow Street in Lynn, Mass., as he looks to distribute safety supplies to drug users on the street.

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He Lost Nearly Everything To Addiction. Then An Arrest Changed His Life

7:04am June 19, 2021

by Martha Bebinger

For years, people who used drugs were treated like criminals, often given long sentences. Now there's growing acceptance that addiction is a treatable disease, but shame and discrimination linger.

Health & Safety

Cigarette Smoking Can Lead To Slow Recoveries From COVID-19

4:38pm September 04, 2020

by David Ford

Most people are aware of the early signs of COVID-19: shortness of breath, cough, and fever.

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Armando Negron and Bellaliz Gonzalez were recovery workers in Midland, Mich., after two dam collapses flooded the area.

'We Were Treated Worse Than Animals': Disaster Recovery Workers Confront COVID-19

11:43am July 09, 2020

Disaster recovery workers cleaning up after major flooding in Michigan tested positive for the coronavirus. The outbreak shined a light on working conditions in the fast-growing industry.

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Paul Williams (left) helps Scott Beatty build his 'backpack' guitar. It has a smaller body, meant to easily fit in a pack. Beatty is in the Culture of Recovery program which teaches instrument making to people recovering from addiction.

Health & Safety

'A New Start' — In Recovery And Learning To Make Musical Instruments In Appalachia

2:04pm December 06, 2019

by Caitlin Tan

In a region ravaged by job loss and addiction, a musical tradition provides a lifeline for people in recovery.