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Virtual Groups
Welcome to the Age of Virtual Groups Virtual meetings are serving a vital purpose during this highly unusual and frightening time when the COVID-19 pandemic has eliminated or altered face-to-face services. Many people are living in isolation and unable to connect with the outside world due to the social restrictions placed on all of us. …
Peer Grief Support Locator
Find a Peer Grief Support Group When someone is grieving, they experience many different feelings, including sadness, guilt, anger, fear, isolation, heartbreak, and longing for their loved one. The stigma associated with having a loved one die of an overdose can exacerbate these feelings. With the COVID-19 pandemic, fear and isolation are becoming almost universal …
Every Day is Memorial Day
By Kerry J. Bickford, Newsletter Editor These are no easy times we are living through. As if it were not enough to be dealing with the addiction or death of a loved one, the COVID-19 pandemic has descended upon us, changing our lives in ways we could never have imagined. It was already challenging to …
Dopey
Grieving Friend Interviewed on “Last Day” “Dave and Chris co-hosted 142 episodes of Dopey, a recovery podcast about ‘drugs, addiction and dumb s—-,’ when the worst thing that could have ever happened, happened: Chris relapsed and died.” Thus begins the description of episode16 of Last Day, a podcast I’ve been a fan of since the …
Peer Grief Helper Profile – Aileen Lovejoy
Peer Grief Helper Profile: Aileen Lovejoy By Kerry J. Bickford, Newsletter Editor To say that it was a leap of faith for Aileen Lovejoy to become a peer grief support group facilitator would be an understatement. Following the death of her only son in 2013, Aileen first attended a group at the church where …
Featured Resource: “The Pain of Grief”
Featured Resource: “The Pain of Grief” SADOD has created a number of resources for people who have suffered the loss of a loved one to an overdose or other tragedy related to substance use. Each issue of the newsletter will feature a SADOD resource or an item we know of that is intended to help …
