LEARN TO COPE FUNDRAISER
August 25th, 2010
- FRIDAY NIGHT SEPTEMBER 17TH FLORIAN HALL, DORCHESTER 7:00PM
- MUSIC,RAFLLES, DINNER, AND SPECIAL GUESTS!
FOR TICKETS PLEASE CLICK ON CONTACT US ON OUR HOMEPAGE OR GET YOUR TICKETS AT A MEETING CHAPTER! THANK YOU TO ALL WHO SUPPORT OUR WONDERFUL SUPPORTIVE RESOURCE TO FAMILIES IN MASSACHUSETTS WHO STRUGGLE WITH A LOVED ONE SUFFERING FROM THE OPIATE EPIDEMIC, ALCOHOL, OR OTHER DRUGS……………YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
ALL CHAPTER LISTINGS
August 25th, 2010
- MONDAYS 7-9
- 10 Christy Drive Brockton
- TUESDAYS 7-9
- Addison Gilber Hospital Gloucester, 298 Washington Street
- WEDNESDAYS 7-9 (BEGINNING 9/8) SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER ONE HOSPITAL DRIVE, LOWELL
- THURSDAYS 7-9 NORTH SHORE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL 57 HIGHLAND AVE< SALEM (GROUND FLOOR IN THE LYNCH CONFERENCE ROOM)
NEWEST CHAPTER BEGINS SEPTEMBER 8TH IN LOWELL!
August 25th, 2010
BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 8TH LEARN TO COPE LOWELL!
Where: SAINTS MEDICAL CENTER, ONE HOSPITAL DRIVE
When: EVERY WEDNESDAY EVENING 7-9
Go to main entrance and follow signs!
LTC IS A PEER LEAD SUPPORT GROUP FOR PARENTS/CAREGIVERS STRUGGLING WITH A MEMBER OF THE FAMILY WHO IS ADDICTED TO OPIATES/ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUGS
THERE IS HOPE YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
LEARN TO COPE GLOUCESTER/CAPE ANN!
June 24th, 2010
I am pleased to announce that a new chapter of Learn to Cope has begun for people in the Gloucester/Cape Ann area
When: Tuesday evenings 7-9pm
Where- Addison Gilbert Hospital 290 Washington Street Gloucester in the Library (go through main entrance)
Sponsored by Healthy Gloucester Collaberative and special thanks to Addison Gilbert Hospital and to Joan Whitney, City of Gloucester Health Department for helping to make this happen
Support, Education, Guest speakers and just a safe place to go and share. There is HOPE you are not alone!
People recovery and we see it happen!
A Moms analogy of Learn to Cope
October 6th, 2009
I was just thinking on my lunch break about what makes LTC different. The difference being what worked for me. I have tried other programs.
Different from the other programs for families is the acknowledgment that as a parent, there is a multi-faceted affect on us when we are dealing with an addicted child. To learn only what we can do as far as detachment and enabling empowers us and helps us learn what we are doing that is contributing to the continued progression of active addiction-but as parents with sick children of any sort, we are compelled by nature to educate ourselves about what ails our children. We are compelled by nature to learn about cures and/or treatments for our sick children. We are compelled to care about other people’s children falling victim to such devastation.
We by nature, are not able to leave a sick child flailing without learning about where, how and if they can be treated. We may not be able to make them better, but we are compelled to learn how they might get better.
For me, recovery was still out of my grasp until I was treated as a whole parent.
We are persons - but we are parent persons and by nature, that makes us more complex than just one.
LTC acknowledges and addresses the whole parent.
This for me, was the MAJOR difference - the difference - that made the difference!
If you are a family member join us at a suport meeting
October 5th, 2009
Meeting Schedule:
Every Monday evening 7 PM
- Brockton at 10 Christy Drive (BAMSI Building, 2nd floor)
Every Thursday evening 7 PM
- Salem at North Shore Childrens Hospital, 57 Highland Ave. (ground flr Lynch Conference Room)
If a meeting falls on a major holiday you may want to email us to make sure the meeting is going on. We meet most holidays. To check on meeting status or for questions email learntocope2001@yahoo.com
Intervention 911!
September 27th, 2009
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Intervention 911 offers a wide range of services in addition to alcohol intervention and drug interventions. We have done interventions for shopping, eating disorders and even mental health issues. We also provide services post treatment to help addicts maintain sobriety upon completion of treatment.
Watching a family member, friend or co-worker self destruct is extremely painful especially when they do not seem to understand the severity of their disease. Often they think they can handle the problem and aren’t aware of their impact on others. Our goal is to work with loved ones to help them see how by changing their own behavior, they can bring about a change in the addict’s behavior. We give you tools and help you implement action to bring about an addict’s rock bottom and help them make the choice to seek treatment.
Intervention 911
1-866-888-4911
THIRD ANNUAL REVERE BEACH MEMORIAL
September 16th, 2009
Hosted by REVERE CARES and REVERE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 20th 7:00 - 8:00PM
held at the Revere Beach Bandstand
If you have lost a loved one to addiction this will be a very healing night. Get there by 6:30 to add your loved one or friends memorial and recieve a candle to light and honor their life.
For more information contact Chris at 781-346-2587
Our support groups schedules
September 16th, 2009
Meeting Schedule:
Every Monday evening 7 PM
- Brockton at 10 Christy Drive (BAMSI Building, 2nd floor)
Every Thursday evening 7 PM
- Salem at North Shore Childrens Hospital, 57 Highland Ave. (ground flr Lynch Conference Room)
If a meeting falls on a major holiday you may want to email us to make sure the meeting is going on. We meet most holidays. To check on meeting status or for questions email learntocope2001@yahoo.com
HELP US SAVE MASAC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 10th, 2009
Commentary in the Ledger and Enterprise www.enterprisenews.com on September 10th 2009
Every bed is needed for those battling long-term addictions
The state Department of Correction plans to close the Massachusetts Alcohol and Substance Abuse Center (MASAC) in Bridgewater, where thousands of men who have been civilly committed receive treatment for up to 30 days in the 100-bed facility.
MASAC is projected to close in October. The men, young and old, who are sent there by a civil commitment, stay in a building across the street from the Bridgewater state prison.
These individuals are not housed with rapists and the criminally insane or in the general population of the jail, as others would have you believe. MASAC is a locked-down detox facility and it has saved countless lives and offered people a chance at getting their lives back with great counselors and AA meetings and it offers the motivation to further treatment after they have been away from the drug for 30 days.
The facility offers families the hope and support they so desperately need during an extremely difficult time in their lives — a time when they hit brick wall after brick wall with insurance companies refusing to pay for detoxification beds. MASAC offers hope when people realize they are powerless to cure their loved ones’ addiction and have exhausted all other options to get help for their child or relative and they know the potential result of the addiction — especially to opiates — is death.
When families grapple with watching their young sons or brothers or husbands or fathers suffer and come close to death due to an addiction, they cannot stop on their own, their last-ditch effort is MASAC.
Those addicted to opiates are already wearing handcuffs, only we can’t see them. The opiate user is a prisoner to the addiction. OxyContin enters people’s lives without warning. Many young kids in school or fresh out tried OxyContin and had no idea what this drug was and the life-threatening potential it has. The addicted child’s parents never had the chance to warn their child about the addictive potential. OxyContin’s expensive street value quickly leads our youth to the next step in this process, heroin addiction.
Sen. Steve Tolman says that between 2002 and 2007 we have lost 74 soldiers to the Iraq War from our state. In that same period, we have lost 3,265 people to fatal opiate overdoses. In Massachusetts, the Department of Public Health says opiate overdose is the number-one cause of death, claiming we lose an average of two people per day. How can a center such as MASAC be closing in the midst of an epidemic?
Whether you believe this is a disease or not, it isn’t going away. Some of the reasons it is going to affect you are that there will be more robberies and more homes will be broken into, more convenience stores will be robbed, more drug dealers will surface, which puts your kids in danger, and ultimately there will be more death within our most precious commodity — our youth.
MASAC has been the one place that saved countless lives and a place so many owe their lives to. I know many young people who are now productive tax-paying citizens with long-term sobriety who went there — including my own son, who was there years ago and today is alive and clean and sober.
As of today, there have been 15 funerals since January this year on the South Shore that I have either attended or heard about — all young people whose families will never be the same. I have known of young requesting a commitment on themselves when there is not a bed to be found.
We know that there is not a magic cure for addiction, but please help us save MASAC and at least have the chance to reach our young sons and loved ones before crime or tragedy strikes our families. As a citizen you should feel safer knowing there is a place that can treat people suffering from this epidemic.
Should MASAC close and not be an option the addicted, many very young will be out doing very desperate and dangerous acts including driving under the influence.
Yes, the citizens have High Point in Brockton, which is a great program and already overwhelmed, causing people to be let out because they only have 104 beds and they are always full. What is going to happen without the beds at MASAC? How is one facility going to handle civil commitments for the entire state of Massachusetts? The taxpayers will pay more later and there will be more death— and suffering families.
Joanne Peterson of Raynham is the founder of Learn to Cope: www.learn2cope.org