Celebrated during the month of September, National Recovery Month, also referred to as Recovery Month, is now in its 24th year. It highlights the individuals who have reclaimed their lives and are living happy and healthy lives in long-term recovery. It also honors the prevention, treatment, and recovery service providers who make recovery possible. Recovery Month forwards the message that recovery in all its forms is possible. It also encourages people to take action to help expand and improve the availability of effective prevention, treatment, and recovery services for those in need.
National Recovery Month
Every September, many thousands of prevention, treatment, and recovery programs and related services across the United States celebrate their successes, sharing them with their peers and people from all walks of life. The purpose is to educate the general public about recovery, and all its facets. There are millions of Americans whose lives have been transformed through recovery, and these successes often go unnoticed by the general population at large. To this end, National Recovery Month provides a way for everyone to celebrate these accomplishments in the field of recovery.
This year, National Recovery Month will focus on the many ways that people can prevent behavioral health issues, can seek workable treatment, and can maintain their recovery, all as a vital part of a person’s commitment to living a “mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually healthy life.” It is most definitely a worthy purpose.
The observance of SAMHSA’s (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) National Recovery Month will be done through printed materials, the internet, television and radio, and the social media tools. Providing these informational and educational materials and resources through these various mediums assist local community outreach, encouraging persons in need of help to seek treatment and recovery provider information. Also provided in the National Recovery Month informational and media campaign is the SAMHSA’s National Helpline, for information and treatment referral, as well as SAMHSA’s Treatment information.
National Recovery Month at Narconon Arrowhead
Narconon Arrowhead, the largest facility in the worldwide Narconon drug rehabilitation and education network, is a strong believer in their role as a potent force in fighting the drug problem, this in addition to their ongoing and longtime delivery of a highly successful alternative and proven approach to drug rehabilitation treatment.
In addition to providing effective drug prevention education to tens of thousands of students throughout the state of Oklahoma and surrounding areas, Narconon Arrowhead also offers their drug prevention education services to local businesses in the community as an integral part of community outreach that contributes to creating a better and safer environment for all.
This year, in support and celebration of National Recovery Month, Narconon Arrowhead will be disseminating Drug-Free World Kits to the schools. The kit was created exclusively for educators and law enforcement officers, as well as for other drug prevention specialists who teach students aged 11 and older in classrooms, group instruction or community learning settings.
The Drug-Free World Kit includes the following materials:
- The Truth About Drugs booklet, the centerpiece of the 13-booklet The Truth About Drugs series.
- The Foundation for a Drug-Free World: a video introduction to the Foundation–a nonprofit public benefit corporation that empowers youth and adults with factual information about drugs so they can make informed decisions and live drug-free.
- Drug awareness-raising tools which can be put to immediate use, including the award-winning They Said, They Lied PSAs (Public Service Announcements)
- A preview of The Truth About Drugs: Real People– Real Stories, a 1 hour and 42 minute documentary.
- The Truth About Drugs Program Guide.
With these kits, Narconon Arrowhead will be sharing the most effective weapon in the war on drugs—education—and will be reaching our young people with the truth about drugs.