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The blame game: Addiction is destroying our communities
May 3, 2021
In 2011, Big Cregg, who helped found Positive Directions, won a Jefferson Award for his outstanding work in the Bayview Hunters Point Community meeting people where they’re at in the addiction and recovery process and helping them find safety and change. Positive Directions Equals Change is a peaceful, open minded place for people in the neighborhood looking for support in drug and alcohol recovery.
by Big Cregg
The proliferation of fentanyl in inner cities, including San Francisco, has brought death and addiction. Who or what is to blame? Some say it is America’s insatiable consumer demand for illicit drugs and the constant flow of our guns, which arm the cartels. Others say it is the pharmaceutical industry.
Margaret Watt, Prevention Director at Positive Directions – The Center for Prevention and Counseling, speaks Friday at a City Hall press conference. Norwalk Partnership is one of many nonprofits “available to support Norwalk, those who are struggling with your mental health or your substance use,” she said.
NORWALK, Conn. Norwalk citizens need to help each other with the distress caused by COVID-19, community leaders said in a Friday press conference.
A recent survey revealed “sobering statistics” – 62% of respondents, “way more than half,” reported experiencing psychological distress, said Margaret Watt, Prevention Director at Positive Directions – The Center for Prevention and Counseling. Of those, 29% described moderate or severe symptoms.
Richard Lemons, executive director for the Connecticut Center for School Change, gives an update on the effort to create a new strategic operating plan for Norwalk Public Schools, Tuesday at the Board of Education meeting.
NORWALK, Conn. The dates for high school graduations and middle school promotion ceremonies are set, but the exact number of people who will be allowed at each are still up in the air, Norwalk Public Schools Superintendent Alexandra Estrella said at the Board of Education meeting on Tuesday.
The ceremonies will be most likely outdoors, she said.
“The numbers are going to depend on the cases around that time,” she said. “Right now, we have restrictions in terms of how large the groups can be. And we’re also even trying to organize prom and taking these numbers into account. So it’s a day-by-day situation right now.”
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