Now, More Than Ever, We All Need to Walk Together AND WE DID! ESTIMATED 30,000 STRONG PRO-ACT and The Council of Southeast PA Thank YOU for coming out for the LARGEST Recovery Walk across the Nation. Over the years, PRO-ACT's Recovery Walks! in Philadelphia has grown in both number of participants and breadth of supporters. NOW, whole families are walking together, government entities, elected officials, faith based and student groups, colleges, businesses and a wide variety of service providers, have joined in to walk together. Recap: PRO-ACT Village and others at the Walk... We thank each and everyone who Volunteered at all of the booths, on the grounds, and those volunteering their time before, during, and after the Walk. Over 400 Volunteers made this event possible! Voter Registration was an active booth! Project Home registered a number of individuals, including people who did not know they had the right to vote! Criminal Records and Expungements booth was hosted by Mental Health Partnerships, whom helped individuals know their rights as it relates to their criminal records. The Pennsylvania Association of Recovery Residences had a booth to answer recovery housing questions for both residents and owners.   The Advocacy Booth was a collaboration of organizations helping many of our Walk participants. PRO-ACT's Advocacy Leadership Group and Prevention Point was very busy! They provided the comprehensive Recovery Voices Count Voter Guide (CLICK HERE), along with materials on overdose, harm reduction, upcoming events and job hunting. Our many sponsors throughout the Walk also provided information at each of their tables regarding their organizations. We hope you had a chance to visit all of them! See a complete listing of our sponsorshere. We also heard from Amazing Speakers, including: Deputy Director Jim Carroll, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), Vice Admiral Jerome Adams, Surgeon General of the United States, David T. Jones, Commissioner at Philadelphia's Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS) Roland Lamb, Deputy Commissioner at Philadelphia's Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS), Jennifer Smith, Secretary at Pennsylvania's Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP), Arthur Evans, CEO at American Psychological Association (APA), Elected officials, including Federal, State and local Legislators, Philadelphia City Council, along with County Commissioners. We also enjoyed music from DL and the Zone, and performances from the 2018 Recovery Idol winner, Lily Mac, and also The Recovery Choir. Jim Rosenfield of NBC10, Philadelphia, was the emcee covering the event. Everyone was AMAZING. PRO-ACT and THE COUNCIL OF SOUTHEAST PA give special Thanks to those that contribute their time and efforts into recovery, recovery support services and the Recovery Walks! 2018. You’ve helped make Recovery Walks! 2018 possible for the 17thconsecutive year with many more to come.   PRO-ACT Recovery Walks! 2018 is made possible by the grand sponsorship of the City of Philadelphia's Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS), and the many other generous sponsors. PRO-ACT is hosted by The Council of Southeast Pennsylvania, Inc. 4459 Swamp Road, Doylestown, PA 18902 │ 215-345-6644 Recovery Support Line: 800-221-6333 www.councilsepa.org www.recoverywalks.org See what's happening on our social sites:  ‌  ‌

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For Treatment Industry & Recovery Community Advertise • Fan Mail • Subscribe • Original • Archive  ‌  ‌  ‌ Sovereign Health Still in the News VIDEO FOX Investigates Heroin for Sex at Palm Desert Rehab VIDEO Sept. 24, 2018 - A Palm Desert rehab center is accused of the unthinkable by a former patient. He claims his house manager forced him into sexual acts in exchange for drugs at a time when he was going through severe heroin withdrawals. Now ... FOX 11 is tracking that... More@FoxLA.com WHO's Next? 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In Smoke 2 million teens are vaping weed September 17, 2018 - E-cigarettes typically contain nicotine, but many of the battery-powered devices can vaporize other substances, including marijuana. Results published Monday mean 2.1 million middle and high school students have used them to get high. More@CBSNews.com We All Should Be Wendy Williams’ hot for helping substance abusers Sept. 21, 2018 - Talk show diva Wendy Williams feels lucky to be alive after more than a decade of cocaine abuse and now wants to help others be present in their own lives. More@Chicago.SunTimes.com Garbage In, Garbage Out VIDEO Quitting junk food leads to withdrawal like drug addictionVIDEO Sept. 21, 2018 - A Very Sweet Video about Poison food in the USA. More@Chron.com We'll take any help we can get ‘Dog the Bounty Hunter’ returning to curb drug addiction Sept. 23, 2018 - There are the people, so many of them affected by alcohol or worse, that Duane “Dog the Bounty Hunter” Chapman said he brought to justice throughout a 40-year career. More@MLive.com On the Beam Steve-O from ‘Jackass’ Just Celebrated 10 Years of Sobriety with a Triathlon Sept. 16, 2018 - “I decided to get in the best shape I’ve ever been in. I may be old, but I’m healthy as f**k!”... More@MensHealth.com Only a Straw Away? Cure for coke addiction in reach Sept. 17, 2018 - Gene therapists have developed a stem cell implant that could help overcome addiction and prevent overdoses... More@TheGuardian.com Worth a Try University of Maryland joins hunt for opioid treatment Sept. 19, 2018 - The Institute of Human Virology, a center in the school of medicine that normally focuses on infectious diseases, plans to announce today that it has won a $12 million federal grant to investigate the therapy over the next five or six years. More@BaltimoreSun.com  Shining a Light VIDEO Someone You Should Know: Recovering addict offers message of hope VIDEO September 18th 2018 - The opioid crisis has opened a lot of eyes to just how powerful addiction can be. But there is also power in recovery from addiction. Tonier Cain has one of those recovery stories. It’s not easy to hear, but it has the power to change lives... More@13WHAM.com  Good News, Bad News It’s Too Early to Celebrate ‘Progress’ on Opioid Epidemic Sept. 20 2018 -The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), released on Friday, showed that the number of people trying heroin for the first time has fallen by more than 50 percent from 2016 to 2017, and that 3 percent more people are seeking opioid-specific treatment... More@Tonic.Vice.com  Can Pink Clouds Last Forever? Ant McPartlin celebrates six months of sobriety with happy photo - see his sweet message SEPTEMBER 22, 2018 - Ant McPartlin is looking happy and healthy in a photo shared by his friend to mark six months since going sober. Publicity agent Simon Hargreaves posted a photo of Ant... More@HelloMagazine.com  The Sun Also Rises 30-minute morning routine will clear your mind & banish stress Sept. 20, 2018 - We've broken this 30-minute routine into two, five- and 10-minute intervals. Here's what to do, starting with the moment you open your eyes.... More@NBCNews.com And the solution is? Western States Opioid Summit Aimed to Raise Awareness About Addiction and Overdoses September 22, 2018 - The Social Model Recovery Systems (SMRS) and the California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals have partnered to present the inaugural Western States Opioid Summit.The convention ran from September 19-21, located at the Anaheim Convention Center. More@TheRecover.com  Prison and Beyond... VIDEOS Life after lockup: Twists and turns for 2 ex-inmates addicted to drugsVIDEOS Sep. 23, 2018 - Cody Ramos and Michael Watson didn’t need experts to tell them how the odds were against them when they left behind the block walls and bunk beds at Maricopa County’s Durango Jail. More@AZCentral.com There Might Be a Pill for That Most ERs Won’t Treat Your Addiction. These Will. Sept. 12, 2018 - Thousands of people with drug addiction and related illnesses go to hospital emergency departments every day. Most doctors refer them to an addiction specialist — but that’s starting to change. More@HuffingtonPost.com And what would make that stop? Fentanyl drives Ohio’s overdose deaths to record Sept. 23, 2018 - Powerful and deadly fentanyl continued to fuel Ohio’s raging drug epidemic. The synthetic opioid accounted for nearly three-fourths of deaths, killing 3,431 people in 2017, 46 percent more than in the previous year. More@Dispatch.com The Grim Reality The waiting list for organ transplants is finally shrinking, as overdose deaths rise  Sept. 24, 2018 - He got a transplant because of a preventable tragedy. 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