From left: Anne Young, Women’s/Recovery Renewal program director at Cornerstone of Recovery; Stephen Kavalkovich; and Steve Wildsmith, content development specialist with Cornerstone of Recovery. Fresh off the plane into Knoxville last weekend, speaker and former emergency responder Stephen Kavalkovich hit...
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Recovery
Not all who are chemically dependent are addicts, but many addicts are chemically dependent. The two terms mean very different things, especially when it comes to prescription medication. Individuals who are on long-term opioid therapy for chronic pain or terminal...
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For Karen Pershing and her team at the Metro Drug Commission, the problem, to paraphrase a particular 12 Step recovery program, isn’t a specific substance: It’s the disease of addiction. Given the media’s attention to buzzworthy topics like the ongoing...
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At first glance, addiction may seem like a many-headed beast, thrown together by some malevolent god with no rhyme or reason. In reality, it follows a linear path with five distinct stages, regardless of the substances used. As a brain...
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On Labor Day Weekend, Canda Corcoran is coming home. Not just to East Tennessee, where she built a life, but to the place that gave her that life: Cornerstone of Recovery, where she’ll be one of the featured speakers for...
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I imprinted on this song before I truly understood what it was saying about me. A friend turned me onto Red House Painters during the spring of 2000 while living in Myrtle Beach, right before my addiction took a hard...
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Back in February, Jessica Booth wrote a piece for the MSN Lifestyle page that was eye-opening, to say the least. “I stopped drinking completely for two years — and it showed me how the world treats sober people differently” is...
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I almost didn’t recognize her when I saw her at a meeting the other day. I still can’t remember her name – it feels, sometimes, as if I’ve vanquished more brain cells than I have left! – but I remember...
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