News-Impact-Advocacy  July 1, 2016

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Garden at New Britain recovery center dedicated to local man who died from addiction   By Adrian Sipes    It's been nearly four years since Forrest Durey died from his struggles with drug addiction, but the death of the 25-year-old resonates with his father every day. On Wednesday, Stan Durey and others involved in helping people beat substance abuse dedicated a garden in Forrest Durey's memory. Stan Durey is involved with the Council of Southeast Pennsylvania Inc., a private nonprofit prevention and recovery support organization for the five-county Philadelphia region. The organization oversees a recovery center on Beulah Road in New Britain. The garden is in its second year of producing crops for the Women's Recovery Community Center in New Britain, which was built after the Council of Southeast Pennsylvania and its entities determined there was a need for healthy food as well as an outdoor activity for people in recovery. "To share his strength and his story .... and to use that to help others heal, I mean, that's really what it's all about," Stan Durey, 67, said. According to Beverly Haberle, executive director for the council, the idea of a garden at the recovery center came from the "vision team" that oversees the New Britain transitional house for women in early recovery from substance abuse. The team ensures the recovery center meets the needs of the community it serves, she said. "There are many things that are satisfying and opportunities within gardening to help really grow your recovery,"Haberle said. Alison Slickers, a coordinator at the recovery center, agrees with Haberle in that the garden has been a great outlet for women in early recovery, noting many of the women spend time caring for the garden. Durey said the garden has gotten bigger this year; tomatoes, cucumbers, peas, broccoli, eggplant and kale can be found sprouting from the soil. "Forrest is still with us. Through this effort, he's still with us every day," Durey said. To learn more about the Women's Recovery Community Center, visitwww.councilsepa.org. Adrian Sipes: 215-345-3147; email: asipes@calkins.com; Twitter: @IntellSipes Achieving Community Together Special Thanks To: Home Depot None Such Farms McCaffrey's Bridgett  Lina Steve  Stan  Adam Finding the Best Treatment Where should you start? What should you ask? Whom should you trust? "Second rule of thumb: The more complicated the outside life, the bigger the need to wall out that life when starting treatment, said Beverly J. Haberle, executive director of the Council of Southeast Pennsylvania, the regional affiliate of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence. "Somebody whose marriage is falling apart, lost a job, a new father," is in the criminal justice system or just has "a lot of stuff going on in their lives," said Haberle, would likely need the extra stability of an inpatient unit" See the full article here.  What addiction science says about getting - and staying - off opioids by Don Sapatkin Two insights over the last half-century have transformed scientific understanding of the nature of addiction: It changes how the brain remembers and responds to temptations. You can see the difference on scans. That's why "just say no" just isn't effective. It is a chronic disease, like diabetes. Both need to be managed for a lifetime. That's partly what is meant by being "in recovery." Nearly 130 Americans die of drug overdoses every day, 60 percent of them - the fastest-rising category of fatalities - due to opioids. The vast majority never got help ....  Continue reading 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 atsmile.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. Go to http://www.smile.amazon.com  Log in with Amazon account info or register if you are a new member Type in The Council of Southeast Pennsylvania, Inc. and click SEARCH We will come up, hit SELECT Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to The Council.