Domestic violence and addiction are not just closely related; they’re often the same exact pattern. They feed and inform one another, and it is all but impossible to break either cycle without breaking both. If an addict gets clean but does not address the patterns of (usually intergenerational) trauma expressing as domestic
Sometimes we don’t want to live anymore. We feel that we’ve lived through or caused so much pain and broken our lives so thoroughly that it seems like death would be easier, gentler, and healthier. This mindset is common for addicts. Many of us have (or think we have) done terrible things
The Friend's House has been welcoming some new faces recently, and the new crew of guys are all excited about gaining some deeper culinary prowess. So this morning, a few of us headed to the grocery store to pick up ingredients for homemade burgers. We learned how to safely dice onions and
The Mid-Coast Recovery Coalition has a new mailing address. Please use: Mid-Coast Recovery Coalition 63 Washington Street Camden, ME 04843 We are no longer leasing office space (or receiving mail) at 411 Main Street in Rockland - since we are spending most of our time at The Friends House and 63 Washington
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Ryan Gamage touched many lives. As his family wrote in his obituary, “For those who knew him and accepted him as he was, there is a void in the lives of those people that simply will never be replaced. Addiction took many things from Ryan over the years, but never his love
If ever our community wanted to demonstrate its commitment to address the drug addiction epidemic in our neighborhoods, the public support for the purchase of 63 Washington Street in Camden made it very clear: Our community supports recovery big time!!! [caption id="attachment_2538" align="aligncenter" width="300"] 63 Washington Street (Women's Recovery Residence)[/caption] More than
63 Washington in Camden has a three century tradition of meeting the needs of women in mid-coast Maine. Mid-Coast Recovery Coalition just learned that it has ONLY until January 2nd, 2019 days to raise $160,000 to continue this tradition by opening a nurturing and healing Women's Recovery Residence to enable women in
Helping women in recovery from substance use disorder requires new and creative solutions, but when Mid-Coast Recovery Coalition (MCRC) Executive Director Ira Mandel talks about plans to establish a women’s recovery residence in Camden, he looks to the past as much as to the future. “Camden’s history of giving and helping convinces
(Source: BDN) ROCKLAND, Maine — A week before Cedric Butler was due to be released from the Bolduc Correctional Facility in Warren, he still didn’t know where he was going to go after he got out. Butler was wrapping up a two-year prison sentence for drug trafficking, but he wasn’t leaving the
[vc_row css=".vc_custom_1545233920533{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Watch the video below of Dr. Ira Mandel talking about the opioid epidemic in Maine, and how people can become involved in making a difference. To learn more, visit www.midcoastrecovery.org[/vc_column_text][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CnChJaBd92Y"][/vc_column][/vc_row]