by bradford | Nov 11, 2020 | About Us, Cornerstone of Recovery, Drug Addiction Treatment 101
On a day set aside to honor the service and sacrifice of the nation’s servicemen and women, drug and alcohol treatment for veterans may seem like a topic best avoid. It shouldn’t be — because addiction and alcoholism are diseases, and they affect veterans at an...
by bradford | Dec 4, 2020 | About Us, Cornerstone staff, Cornerstone of Recovery
It’s a marvelous thing, watching Curtis T. work his magic. To be fair to his peers in the clinical side of Cornerstone of Recovery, where Curtis Trotter (as he’s officially known) works as a counselor in the Newcomers Program, it’s not magic so much...
by bradford | Aug 30, 2019 | Stepping Stone to Recovery, About Us, Cornerstone staff, Cornerstone of Recovery
The portrait of William J. “Bill” Hood hangs in the boardroom of Stepping Stone to Recovery. For years, they returned to Blount County, Tennessee — hundreds of recovering addicts and sober alcoholics — to honor the legacy of a man most never met at a...
by bradford | Sep 3, 2019 | Cornerstone staff, Cornerstone of Recovery
Jessica Stanley — her admission photo to Buffalo Valley in 2016, and today as one of the Tennessee Faces of Opioids. The bitter ends of addiction are a familiar refrain for anyone who sits in a 12 Step meeting: Jails, institutions and death. Jessica Stanley, a...
by bradford | Sep 6, 2019 | Cornerstone staff, Cornerstone of Recovery
Award recipient Teresa Hazel, left, with Nancy Dabbs, president of the East Tennessee Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors. Whenever someone in East Tennessee asks for help for addiction and alcoholism, her name almost always finds its way into the...
by bradford | Sep 13, 2019 | About Us, Cornerstone staff, Cornerstone of Recovery
A sign outlines the original plans for Cornerstone of Recovery: detox and Intensive Outpatient at 1120 Topside Road, a.k.a. Hearthstone Lodge, and residential treatment at Tapoco Lodge in North Carolina. It may have been a combination of serendipity, dumb luck and...
