Marie Nyswander Changed the Landscape of Addiction. Here’s How Her Story Begins.

In 1946, Marie Nyswander, a recent medical school graduate, joined the U.S. Public Health Service looking for adventure abroad. Instead, they sent her to Lexington, Kentucky’s Narcotic Farm, a prison…

Former NBA starter Chris Herren to share addiction recovery story in Ann Arbor

ANN ARBOR, MI – Chris Herren understands the perils of substance addiction. It literally killed him. Paramedics decided the former NBA starter was lifeless in the back of an ambulance…

A touch of Grace: Pastor shares story of addiction recovery and 2nd chances | Baptist Life

RUSSELLVILLE, Ky. (KT) – Todd Latham, a bivocational pastor in southwestern Kentucky, preaches routinely to primarily unsaved and unchurched people today. Some have not only never ever opened a Bible…

Addiction recovery story: How faith saved a Utah couple

Lester and Stephanie Herrera uncovered the Lord and sobriety by way of the Rescue Mission of Salt Lake’s New Existence Restoration Program. (Lee Benson, Deseret Information) Believed go through time:…

‘I’ve been exactly right here where you are’— the story of one woman’s path to recovery for addiction

Ferletta Martinez states she was prepared to get aid for her dependancy to heroin and methamphetamine months in advance of she observed a recovery plan. “One day I just woke…

Rocky Mountain PBS journalist shares her story of addiction and recovery

I was molested at the age of 5 by the teenage son of a caregiver. From that issue, element of my emotional advancement stopped, and a void opened up in…