addiction treatment

Accidental overdose deaths are on the rise through the first six months of the year and are expected to outpace last year’s deaths, according to data from the state’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.   “Recovery isn’t this elusive, esoteric concept,” Kevin Shuler, a recovery coach with Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR), said. “It’s tangible, attainable and real and...

Mike Seaver from Aware Recovery Care explains to “Embrace the recovery because that’s where the solution is.”

New Haven police are taking action on the opioid crisis with some help in the form of a new K9.

Parents who lost their son to an opioid overdose have now donated two K9s and a cruiser to the department to help in the fight against opioid addiction.

After being closed for one year, a Norwich methadone clinic is reopening. State and city leaders gathered at the Root Center for Advanced Recovery’s newly renovated Norwich location Monday morning. The location abruptly closed one year ago due to structural deficiencies, according to CEO Steven Zuckerman. “We knew it was going to be a pretty huge hindrance for our...

A center to help battle the opioid crisis in Norwich is reopening after it closed last year.