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Celebrating 40 Years! September 10, 2015 The theme for Recovery Month 2015 is Join the Voices for Recovery: Visible, Vocal, Valuable!, which highlights the value of peer support in educating, mentoring, and helping others. The theme also invites individuals in recovery and their support systems to be catalysts and active change agents in communities, and in civic and advocacy engagements. It encourages individuals to start conversations about the prevention, treatment, and recovery of behavioral health conditions at earlier stages of life. (www.recoverymonth.gov) Quick Links Recovery Walks Registration Donate to The Council Information Help Line Employment Opportunities Recovery Center Calendars Professional Trainings CRS Training Program Save the Date! Recovery Walks! 20159/19/15: 9am Registration is FREE! CRS Training ProgramOctober 19-29, 2015 40th Anniversary Gala5/5/2016 Normandy Farm Volunteer for The Council/PRO-ACT !! Central Bucks:      Email or call Steve at215-345-6644 x3006 Southern Bucks:   Email or call Karen at215-788-3738 x100 Philadelphia, Chester County, Delaware County, Montgomery County:         Email John or call 215-923-1661     Recovery Walks! 2015 September 19 Penn's Landing, Philadelphia Last year, 23,000 people joined the walk to celebrate recovery, making it the largest recovery activity in the nation.  With your support, this year will be even bigger!  Recovery Walks! highlights the positive impact of recovery on the region and gives hope to those struggling with addiction that thriving in recovery is possible.   Recovery Idol Finale, website Entertainment by DL and The Zone Appearances by Local, State, and Federal legislators Register to vote Learn about Overdose Prevention Learn how The Affordable Care Act may affect you Learn about Act 106 Learn about resources for recovery Join the Honor Guard and celebrate 10 or more years in recovery Inspire others Be inspired Sign up to participate in the Unite to Face Addiction walk in Washington, DC, website Learn more about Recovery Walks! Register and sponsor a walker or team by visiting www.recoverywalks.org OPIOID ADDICTION: AN OPEN LETTER TO THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES August 21, 2015  Written by Bill White "...a disease needs to be transformed politically before it can be transformed scientifically." -Siddhartha Mukherjee,The Emperor of All Maladies (A Biography of Cancer) Ladies and Gentlemen,         As you are quickly discovering, the effects of opioid addiction on individuals, families, and communities will be a recurring issue in the 2016 Presidential campaign. Addiction to prescription opioids and heroin is increasing in the United States and leaving in its wake legions of overdose deaths, families struggling to find effective remedies, and local community leaders under pressure to forge a public response to these tragedies.  As you campaign across the country, it will become clear that this epidemic is reaching into the most and least affluent and the most and least politically connected neighborhoods and families in this country.  As you campaign from city to city, affected families, friends, fellow students, co-workers, and employers are going to ask you a pointed question:  "What will you as President do to heal this bleeding wound within American communities?"               Historically, political candidates in such circumstances have pledged their commitment to tougher drug laws, intensified international and domestic drug enforcement, expansion of existing approaches to treatment, and expanding prevention resources.  And yet these general approaches have neither prevented the rise of the current opioid addiction epidemic nor provided a sustainable framework for effective local responses to it. Leaving the prevention and broader drug supply policy issues aside for a moment, there are a number of science-grounded strategies that would offer support to the individuals and families caught in the net of this epidemic.  Based on my experience working on the front lines of this problem for nearly half a century, here are twelve answers I suggest you include in your response to the "What will you do?" question.                       Read entire letter here Give to The Council While You Shop!  AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support The Council every time you shop, at no cost to you. When you shop at smile.amazon.com, you'll find the exact same low prices, vast selection and convenient shopping experience as Amazon.com, with the added bonus that Amazon will donate a portion of the purchase price to The Council. 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