Experience Recovery

In 2020 we added Experience Recovery Detox & Residential in Santa Ana to our program offerings. After a successful transaction, Experience Recovery is now in the capable hands of a group led clinically by Debra Kelsey, whom so many of you know. Change is the constant.

Best wishes to you and your team, Debra Kelsey as you endeavor to take Experience Recovery into its' new chapter.

Brad Lamm

IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO HELP & HURT SO OFTEN
a brutal reality so many families get, up close, as they love someone who suffers.

Matthew Perry’s assistant Kenny Iwamassa injected fatal overdose, bought illicit drugs from ‘master chef’: feds “I thrive in chaotic situations which call for order. I am discreet, loyal and honor absolute confidentiality,” Iwamasa’s now-poignant LinkedIn biography reads.

A Meditation for Today

To the spark of life, I surrender,
That I might be better.

To better know how it’s
Head to bed, minus a drug
No matter what.

To better breathe and know
The grain of sand in all that is —
time, joy and discomfort —
Unobserved, becomes a pearl.

To better slow-down to feel
This sound of love, all around,
In the ground.

To better be of service to the Suffering, giving a hand as is safe.

To the spark of life I surrender,
That smart feet lead to a place
I might love and be loved
Intact, not shattered. Better.

Amen

Wanna get to know me better? Other than my arm is fuzzy?

Queery: Brad Lamm “Who is that?” That’s the first thing I thought when I first encountered Brad Lamm during a highly-contentious ACT-UP meeting in 1990 at the Le***an, Gay, Bis*xual & Transgender Community Center in New York.

☀SAVE THE DATE: SEPTEMBER 22 ☀
Join me for an unforgettable day at POLO in the Palisades! 🏇 I am being honored alongside my colleagues Miles Adcox, Louise Stanger Ed.D, LCSW & MusiCares Foundation. POLO IN THE PALISADES is the fabulous event supporting Miriam’s House, which provides treatment and loving care for moms with their children.

REGISTER NOW!
https://tinyurl.com/PoloPalisades

DID YOU GO TO HIS INTERVENTION TOO?
I will never forget Christopher's INTERVENTION on The Sorpano's. It's unlike any intervention I have led, but with parts of all of them all, more than a thousand in all.

In the invitational intervention model I practice, we don't use letters, invite the one who's suffering to their own intervention, and we never throw someone in the trunk. And...more clients over the years remember this one from TV than any other.

Christopher Moltisanti, The Intervention - The Sopranos HD Christopher Moltisanti, The Intervention, The Sopranos HD

To those who want to be better, and wonder how? A guide from THE TREVOR PROJECT goes a long way in supporting being an ALLY of q***r folk.

2024 Guide to Being an Ally to Trans and Nonbinary Young People The first step to becoming an ally to transgender and nonbinary people is to learn more; thank you for taking that step with us!

Unresolved Trauma and Sexualized Drug Use - Mellissa McCracken, CADC-II Today we welcome Mellissa McCracken who brings an elegant combination of experience, expertise, compassion, and clarity to this complicated subject with a focus on men who have s*x with men. Utilizing a practical, harm-reduction approach, clients benefit from an open-minded, holistic method to estab...

The true tale of the STATE OF M**H in America

‘I Don’t Know That I Would Even Call It M**h Anymore’ Different chemically than it was a decade ago, the drug is creating a wave of severe mental illness and worsening America’s homelessness problem.

Amphetamine and the Brain - What is Amphetamine? - Effects of Amphetamine - Amphetamine Addiction Amphetamine Addiction - Learn about amphetamine addiction signs, symptoms, causes, side effects & withdrawal from amphetamine abuse. Amphetamine Addiction du...