My name is Dorothy Matteson Pierce and I am silver chip number 84! I came to The Healing Place, now Healing Transitions, at the age of 25 and was completely broken emotionally. I grew up in Raleigh and had a wonderful life up through high school. Because I played select soccer for CASL and for…
RALEIGH (WTVD) — As the sun rose early Christmas morning. a group of women worked as hard as Santa’s elves. But instead of toys, they made a hot breakfast. “We are serving eggs, we are serving hash browns, sausage gravy and biscuits, bacon and sausage,” Mary Bolick said. Bolick organized the meal. It was served…
December 24, 2018 By Taylor Knopf Everyone knows holidays can be stressful. And if you’re in recovery from addiction, that just adds to the stress. Here are some ways to make your holidays – and those of folks you love – a little smoother. Terri Edwards’ first Christmas home after entering an addiction recovery program…
By Richard Adkins, WRAL Photojournalist Raleigh, N.C. — The new year is approaching, a time when many people resolve to get in shape, to better connect with friends, or just vow to be a better person. There is a group in Raleigh who can help with all that. It’s a free program they call F3.…
I came through the doors of Healing Transitions on January 9, 2012. I was a 33-year-old high school dropout, and I had spent the better part of my adult life incarcerated as a direct result of my addiction. I started out smoking pot and drinking in high school and then eventually graduated to harder drugs.…
It was after watching an employee successfully perform CPR and administer the anti-opioid drug naloxone to an overdosed patient, that Chris Budnick knew he had to revise his organization’s approach to addressing the opioid crisis. Budnick is the executive director of Healing Transitions, a peer-run addiction recovery center in Raleigh, North Carolina, that’s on the…
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – Like many things growing around the Triangle, the problem of drugs and alcohol is not immune. The number of people coming through the doors at Healing Transitions looking for help with alcoholism and other substance use disorders has gone up. Healing Transitions is the only long-term, peer-based recovery program in Wake…
Last month the Wilkes County Sheriff’s Office announced a series of drug seizures that netted 30 arrests, including a number in which methamphetamine was a factor, alongside heroin, opioid pain pills, cocaine and marijuana, according to the Wilkes Journal Patriot. Many headlines about the dangers of drug addiction in recent months have focused on heroin…
When Casy and Jason had met in 1999, they were already actively using. From the start of their relationship, drugs and alcohol were a big part of their relationship. “We were together for a year when I got pregnant with our son,” said Casy. “I thought a child would settle us down and that we’d…
RALEIGH (April 23, 2018) – Healing Transitions, an addiction recovery program in Raleigh, marked two major milestones in its history this month: graduating 1,000 participants through the recovery program and providing 1 million beds of shelter to homeless men in the community since the program opened in 2001. In addition, Healing Transitions has provided 330,000…