This is a Place Where Miracles Happen
Published by StoryStudio on my mysanantonio.com, March 26, 2020
At Rise Recovery, San Antonio’s youth, young adults and their families receive support and guidance for overcoming the challenges of drug or alcohol use. One common challenge is navigating technology. Smart phones, social media, and convenience apps have made the idea of keeping teens from coming into contact with illegal drugs impossible, unfortunately. In as little as eight minutes, a teen can discreetly communicate with a dealer, get access to that dealer, exchange money, and get drugs without a parental figure noticing. Using cash exchange apps, teens and young adults are able to send money anonymously. A marijuana dealer living in San Antonio could hypothetically be found on a social media app with the help of drug-suggestive emojis, tags and photographs, conduct a “drop-off” through a ride share app, and accept a cash app as payment. Teenagers wouldn’t have to go farther than their front yard to pick up anything they desired.
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STAND STRONG FOR THE SECOND WAVE
BY: EVITA MORIN, CEO OF RISE RECOVERY
When we choose to no longer hide whatever it is that we struggle with, there is tremendous relief. We can be supported. We can get help. We learn that we are no longer alone. And we aren’t. We are in this together. Life is hard. Sometimes it is unbearable. But with openness and love together we can move from darkness and suffering to light, hope, and healing.-David Sheff
The medical community is enlisting resources from every health professional in every corner of the nation to support the COVID-19 physical health crisis. Our focus on addressing the immediate physical health of those exposed to COVID-19 is critical and necessary.
As a behavioral health care leader, my colleagues and I have deep concern for the assured second wave of health-related issues caused by COVID-19: the forecasted mental health and substance use crisis to follow. The social service nonprofits, especially those providing mental and behavioral health support, will be responsible for “cleaning up the aftermath” from the devastation of this economic and health crisis.
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Weekly Recovery Resource March 3, 2018
Getting to Know You
Meet Rise Recovery Board Member
W. Carroll Jackson
Senior Vice President – Morgan Stanley
I serve on the board of Rise Recovery because our daughter suffered with the disease of addiction. Because of Rise Recovery, she has been sober for over two and a half years and is now working on a degree in family counseling. I learned in the early stages of her addiction that this is a neurological disease that impacts fully 10% of the population and is in almost all families. Few people know where to go for help and often feel the shame of even discussing the problem. Recovery takes the entire family and Rise Recovery provides no cost services not only to the addict but their family as well. My mission is to get people to understand that this is a disease and needs to be treated as a disease and not just kids who made bad decisions. By helping kids when they first face drug or alcohol abuse issues we can help them turn their lives around and learn to be productive members of society.
