Policymakers in Rhode Island and in other states are looking at peer recovery coaches as a way to combat the nation’s burgeoning opioid epidemic, reports Kaiser Health News. Here are three things to ...

You have these windows when they’re willing, and you’ve got to go,” said Peer Recovery Coach and Peer Navigator Shelly ...

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PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- Dustin French, 29, had four drug overdoses in the span of a year. "I was dead on arrival to the hospital," he said of his last heroin overdose, which happened in April. "I woke up … ...

Jun. 27—"You wouldn't think that you would see freedom in prison, but I have seen so much freedom here," said Hali Furr, director of addiction recovery services at the Rockville Correctional Facility.