by bradford | Aug 21, 2020 | About Us, Cornerstone staff, Cornerstone of Recovery
When patients come to Cornerstone of Recovery for drug and alcohol treatment, they’re not their best selves. Whether they come of their own accord or they’re forced to seek help because of employers or family members, they frequently arrive on what they believe at the...
by bradford | Sep 1, 2020 | About Us, Cornerstone staff, Cornerstone of Recovery
One of the goals of National Recovery Month, observed every September, is to “highlight inspiring stories to help thousands of people from all walks of life find the path to hope, health, and overall wellness” [1] — and few members of the Cornerstone of Recovery...
by bradford | Sep 4, 2020 | About Us, Cornerstone staff, Cornerstone of Recovery
Labor Day weekend 1985 was the last hurrah for Anne Young, the Director of Residential Programs at Cornerstone of Recovery. She remembers vividly driving up to a hotel in the mountain resort town of Gatlinburg, where her cousin tended bar. The liquor was plentiful...
by bradford | Sep 9, 2020 | About Us, Cornerstone staff, Cornerstone of Recovery
EDITOR’S NOTE: As part of National Recovery Month, we’re spotlighting employees of Cornerstone of Recovery who found a way out of addiction and alcoholism at our facility, and have returned as employees who now do the same for those who follow in their footsteps. The...
by bradford | Sep 16, 2020 | About Us, Cornerstone staff, Cornerstone of Recovery
As a counselor in recovery, Seth Charles knows all too well the depths to which addiction can take someone. At his worst, he was living in a foreclosed home with his 4-year-old daughter and her mother, running an extension cord from his car to provide enough power for...
by bradford | Sep 21, 2020 | About Us, Cornerstone of Recovery
On Sept. 5, 1989, then President George H.W. Bush gave his first nationally televised address to declare drugs as “the greatest domestic threat facing our nation today.” [1] In East Tennessee, that wasn’t news to William J. “Bill” Hood, who had put together a small...
