What We Need In Bartow:
- Community education to dispel the stigma, myths, & discrimination associated with addiction/substance use disorders
- Youth & parent drug education & prevention in our schools
- Greater variety of mutual support meetings/ multiple pathways to recovery
- More churches that help & support holistic family recovery
- CARES (peer recovery coaches)
- Grief support for parents who have lost children to addiction
- Support for families affected by a loved one’s addiction
- A crisis stabilization & detoxification facility
- Specially trained peer recovery coaches in ER and urgent cares
- Neonatal abstinence syndrome support for mother and baby
- Physicians board-certified in addiction medicine
- Physicians whose practice includes opioid dependency treatment
- Medical & school-based professionals trained in SBIRT
- More certified addiction counselors
- Affordable residential treatment
- More recovery/transitional residences
- Safe place [drug & alcohol-free] for those in recovery to gather socially
- Safe, affordable housing for persons in recovery with drug-related felonies
- Employers who support & hire persons in recovery & who have drug-related felonies
- Addiction treatment for incarcerated family members