CCSA to Host ‘Now What? How to Help Someone With Substance Abuse Issues’ By Ellie Forman | April 15, 2021
Around 46% of Americans have a close friend or family member who struggles with substance use or addiction. When we expand this to include colleagues, peers or even members of our shul, chances are everybody knows somebody.
Addiction is a disease that affects every community – Jewish or not. As members of Klal Yisrael, though, we are all accountable for one another. But what does that accountability look like in practice?
Addressing the “Now What?”
CCSA was started as a direct response to addiction in our own family and the isolation, fear and desperation that we felt. When our family was confronted with this issue, we struggled to accept the “three Cs” of dealing with a loved one’s addiction: “I didn’t cause it, I can’t cure it, I can’t control it.” Feeling overwhelmed with helplessness and fear, my parents began fran
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April is Alcohol Awareness Month – a public health program organized as a way of increasing outreach and education regarding the dangers of alcoholism and issues related to alcohol use. The program was created in 1987, with the intention of targeting college-aged students who are especially at risk for alcohol-related issues. It has since become a national movement to draw more attention to the topic.
Is our community drinking too much? One wife’s chilling story, a harsh reality
Sari had only been married a few months when she found herself standing outside the neighborhood liquor store, waiting for her husband. She recognized the couple coming toward her the husband was in the same kollel as hers and she’d met the wife a few times.
While the other woman’s husband ducked into the store, Sari chatted with the wife, making the usual hollow small talk. After a moment’s lull, the woman turned to Sari, her eyes darkening, and whispered, “Why didn’t anyone tell us?” She nodded meaningfully toward the liquor store that had swallowed their spouses.