The second annual Recovery Palooza had a crowd of people in Genoa Park over the weekend. The event is put on by BrightView Health Addiction Treatment Center. The event celebrates effective outpatient addiction treatment.
After serving over 300 patients in the communities of Elyria and Lorain, Brightview Clinic is celebrating its first year. Brightview Clinic helped their patients with about 2400 hours of medical treatment and about 1500 in counseling and therapy.
Over thirty local organizations gathered in the square Thursday afternoon to do their part in the fight against overdose. Thursday (8/31) was International Overdose Awareness Day in honor of both those who have lost their lives and survivors of overdose. Organizers of the 3rd Annual Resource Fair say that many in Lima have been hard at work trying to help those suffering from addiction and save lives, but they have seen an increase in overdoses since the pandemic began in 2020. They say that this is about more than just…
Brightview, an addiction treatment center in Warren, hosted a community event at the Warren Family Mission. Mission leaders say it’s important to give people information on turning their lives around. The event had 17 providers handing out resources for mental and physical health. Event leaders say this event is important to show people what Trumbull County has to offer. “Our goal with this was so that there was no intimidation when coming to a table,” said Allie Bova, Brightview community resource manager. “Because we know that there are resources that…
“I was a little bit distracted at the beginning when they were reading who was winning the award—I was trying to get registered to win the big TV,” Community Outreach Manager at BrightView Health Rebecca Bollens said. “It was buffering and buffering; finally, I gave up because they were talking about this person that’s winning this fabulous award, and I thought, ‘Wow, this is really great. I wonder who it is.’”
Addiction Recovery in Kentucky is being supported through government funding from the CAREER Act or The Comprehensive Addiction Recovery through Effective Employment and Reentry. The bill was introduced for reauthorization in June after it was originally filed in in 2018. U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Congressman Andy Barr, worked to pass this bill because of the issues the Commonwealth has with substance use disorders.
BrightView has opened its 17th Kentucky location in Pikeville. BrightView works with patients to come up with the best plan for recovering from substance use disorders. Patients are required to set up their next appointment before leaving.
Overdose deaths in Kentucky have declined for the first time in four years, but the problem is far from over. That is why it is important to keep discussing the topic of addiction treatment.
Several people were frantically waving for help as they pulled a young man from his car, suffering from an apparent drug overdose. Gardner, who is a retired firefighter, and McKinney stopped and quickly jumped into action once they learned the man was not breathing and had no pulse. Brightview Health employees Sari Cason and Crystal Barajas also stopped to assist and provided additional Narcan.
“People at Brightview across all of our states, they have some connection to addiction,” said David McDonald Jr., Brightview’s public relations manager, during a tour he gave LINK nky of the new facility in Covington, which opened on Monday. “My parents both went through it, and I had a cousin that passed after an overdose.”