and faces and voices of recovery certainly gets engaged in... faces and voices of recovery are fantastic people. they're part of our community and they do only good for the world. i mean, it's an incredible organization. but it really does take that, does it not? it takes people getting engaged, getting involved, calling individuals letting them know that they're not quite comfortable the way that things have been portrayed because stigma, really, it's totally perpetuated in many instances through bad portrayals. yes. i mean, one of the things we know about good compelling storylines is that it triggers the behaviors of, for example, talking with family members and friends about what they've seen, calling for further information. you know, we've done studies to look at searches on the web and the timing of those searches. what we've found is people are multitasking. if there's a great storyline on television that's engrossing them, they will actually do a web search between the 9 and 10 p.m. hour when that show is on the air. they're not waiting

of recovery month. the efforts of thousands of individuals throughout the country yielded more than 800 events nationwide supporting the 2008 recovery month theme of join the voices for recovery: real people, real recovery. recovery month promotes the benefits of alcohol and drug use disorder treatment for individuals, their families, and their communities. it recognizes the contributions of treatment providers and promotes the message that recovery from alcohol and drug use disorders in all its forms is possible. today, we urge every person in this country to pause and reflect on the great gift of recovery and to thank the thousands of committed workers, counselors, health care providers, physicians, social workers, eap specialists, peer support, and others who toil daily to bring healing to the millions affected by the disease of addiction. the beneficiaries of recovery are not just the individual who has the substance abuse problem, but it's the family, as we pointed out, and the community. an estimated 23.2 million persons need treatment for illicit drug and alcohol use in 2007. of these, only 2.4 million receive treatment at a specialty facility. of the rema

is taking a look at as well as issues before state legislatures and city councils, faces and voices of recovery has a regular e-newsletter where we send out updates about what's going on when it comes to recovery-friendly legislation and building opportunities for people to get into long-term recovery. feel free to go to our web site at www.facesandvoicesofrecovery.org and you can sign up for our e-newsletter and become part of the growing recovery advocacy movement around our country. congressman davis, we've talked about the level of effort that is necessary, that we've got a lot of people who need addiction treatment. we've talked about the need to coordinate services. how does that start to happen? well, you know, i come from an area that has a tremendous amount of need, as well as many health care institutions and facilities. i actually have more hospitals and hospital beds in my congressional district than any other district in america. i also have 5 medical schools and more than 20 colleges and universities. and so obviously we spend a great deal of time looking at health issues and heal

addiction technology transfer center; lisa mojer-torres, esquire, consumer advocate, faces & voices of recovery; mark parrino, founder and president, american association for the treatment of opiod dependence (aatod). dr. clark, let's talk a little bit about medication-assisted therapies and how they're used. well there are a number of medications that are used to help facilitate recovery from substance use disorders. the most popular and most prominent would be buprenorphine and methadone. but there are also medications used for the treatment of alcohol. examples of that would be naltrexone and the camprosate or disulfiram. what they're used to do is to either facilitate the recovery of persons through maintenance, as with methadone or buprenorphine, to facilitate detoxification. both methadone and buprenorphine can be used for that, as anti-craving agents, such as acamprosate and naltrexone, or to discourage use of a substance such as an aversive antabuse or disulfiram. and lisa, a lot of people might think that medication-assisted therapies is really substituting one drug for another, is tha

of discrimination for individuals, even for those that are in recovery. yes, it absolutely does. there was a study that was done for faces and voices of recovery of the recovery community of people who identified themselves as being in recovery that found that 24 percent of them, a full quarter, said they had been discriminated against when they sought employment and/or insurance. and of course it's pretty hard to live without a job. it's pretty hard to live without insurance that will cover your health care. so discrimination is still an ugly reality. people get discriminated against both because of their alcohol and drug history even if they have been in recovery a long time. and also many people who may have picked up a criminal record while they're addicted but have since gone on to get into treatment or otherwise it's recovery are doing fine with their lives, still have that conviction on their record or even arrest that didn't lead to a conviction that may well plague them down the road as they run into problems trying to get the basic necessities of life to be able to sustain their recovery, as dr. cline talked about before.

recovery from that place. and greg, just one more thing, in terms of finding recovery services, i know that you're familiar with faces and voices of recovery, but can families go online and find similar programs like the one you have in connecticut? it's not so easy right now. i mean, honestly, you know, recovery supports for young people is gravely understudied, underfunded, under supported across the board. so while there's a lot of hope out there and there's a lot of young people in recovery, they're not so easy to find. you know, the best supports out there are local, you know, mutual support groups that are focused to young people that are the easiest thing to access. so, you know, whether or not somebody wants to find a meeting in their local area, a lot of the 12-step groups will have, you know, a youth category, you know, that'll say that this meeting might be more focused to young people. monique, how do i get into if i'm in need of a recovery school? how do i approach the various schools? are they available to everyone all over the united states or is it only in certain pockets? unfortunately, there are recovery high

well faces and voices for recovery is the sort of national face and voice. that organization is a membership organization that's young but is trying to put a face and voice on recovery. and the organization's. one of the main organizing themes is diversity that all paths to recovery are welcomed and respected, and that we don't know what's going to work from one person to the next. so it's incumbent upon us to find out as much information as we can about ourselves, our own diseases and what options are available to us and to help each other through the process. more information can be learned about the different treatment modalities that are available, and recovery support services in particular. and i would urge everyone to get involved, even if from a family perspective or if you know somebody who's in addiction, who's having an active addiction treatment prevention or recovery at any of the stages. we definitely need help in perpetuating positive attitudes and proper information about this disease. i think it's also to break through a wall of secret-keepin

declined stateside overnight after federal reserve chairman ben bernanke you voiced concerns about the pace of u.s. economic recovery a stronger yen has hit export of stocks on the neck a as investors buy into the safe haven japanese currency and in hong kong the hang seng is down zero point two percent this hour. and here in moscow the r.t.s. has opened lower shedding more than half a percent so far that follows gains in the previous session my six or such rating in just a few minutes it had a strong session on one state finishing two percent higher gas problem was a top gain of their one and a half percent close. so as of new cars in russia tipped to grow fifteen percent this year according to accountants p w c the company says the cash for clunkers program drove the sector's rise but it's unclear what will happen when the scheme ends pool reports. russians are once again getting annoying to buy new cars the wait to get behind the wheel of a missed sadie's is up to three months and if it's a new russian built law do you want well i could take as long as one for a year in some regions so far overall sales are up th

voice concerns about the u.k.'s efforts to limit indeed immigration mr cameron has already met local business leaders in an attempt to cool new projects to aid britain's economic recovery. time not to explore some of the many treasures of russia as we take a tour around the country bringing you a flock shot of its most interesting places. and this time we travel to the kaluga region founded in the mid fourteenth century is just two hundred kilometers away from moscow famous for its space exploration and scientific research it's responsible for a number of quite a good solid citizen engineering and that translates in recent years a kaluga has also become one of the servants of the russian intimated industry attracting a number of major foreign companies ati's cover to make about your vote went to meet some ex-pats to find out just why the regions it's a good place for the brits it's. the wrong time carlo has been primarily associated with compared to the maverick scientists from the end of the last sanctuary who financed work on rockets the region was dubbed the cradle of astronautics but what is good transportation links to the capital with a population of just over a million people the region has

. >> sreenivasan: the chairman of the federal reserve promised today to take action to bolster the recovery, if need be. at a senate hearing, ben bernanke voiced concern about slowing growth. >> the economic outlook remains unusually uncertain. we will continue to carefully assess ongoing financial and economic developments, and we remain prepared to take further policy actions as needed to foster a return to full utilization of our nation's productive potential in a context of price stability. >> sreenivasan: bernanke played down chances the economy will slide back into recession. but he said record low interest rates need to stay in place for an extended period. the mood on wall street turned sour after bernanke spoke. the dow jones industrial average lost 109 points to close at 10,120. the nasdaq fell 35 points to close at 2,187. federal efforts to fight off home foreclosures are not working. that's what a senate committee heard today, from special inspector general neil barofsky. he said foreclosure filings continue unabated, despite programs for lenders to modify the terms of troubled home loans. but barofsky said the u.s. treasury refuse

of 2009, introduced by representative jay murphy on april 28, 2010, by a voice vote. they have small but important changes from base text in h.r. 3393. s. 1508 strengthens the bill by requiring recovery audit contractors to report the fraud they find and to conduct appropriate training on the means and methods to do so. s. 1508 also requires the agencies to report to congress and o.m.b. their actions and plans to address the recommendations they received from the audit recovery contractors. s. 1508 provides the federal government with the tools needed to prevent mistakes and overpayments in the first place and recover funds that are paid in error. it makes federal agencies more accountable for properly managing taxpayer funds. the bill requires agencies to develop and report corrective action plans based on error rates and creates incentives for meeting their goals. importantly, the bill gives the agencies the means to go after the funds they have overpaid, which will make the taxpayer agencies program and activities which relied on those appropriations whole. we live in a time when our government is under extreme fiscal demand, and we need to do everything possible to ensure that ev

your experience to be counted so it's important to hook up with faces and voices or your local recovery communities and to be a part of this so we can fight societal discrimination and make it easier for the next generation to come up and get the help they need. music if someone you know needs help for a substance use disorder, where do you turn to find treatment? the substance abuse treatment facility locator was created just for this purpose. it is a searchable directory of more than 11 and a half thousand treatment programs around the country that treat alcoholism, alcohol abuse and drug abuse problems. the locator searches for the facilities in the nearest city or address that you specify and displays maps showing the exact locations of the treatment facilities that meet your search criteria. to access the treatment locator, go to the recovery month web site and click the link to locate a treatment center in your area. from there you can customize your search and the locator will give you a list of the treatment centers nearest to you. music thank you, have a great day. music i hope this show inspires you to organ