• Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Culpeper Overdose Awareness

  • Home
  • Resources
    • Recovery Meetings
    • Recovery Support
    • Family Support
    • Find Treatment
  • Online Support/Corona
  • Upcoming Events
  • In The News
  • For Those Grieving
  • Blog
  • About Us
    • Our Story
    • Contact

RRCSB

Addiction Resources make Top 10 local stories of 2019

January 8, 2020 By Dee Leave a Comment

2. Culpeper’s heroin plague persists, but hope is on the horizon

Abuse of heroin and other pain-numbing opioids continued to plague the area – and country – in 2019, with Culpeper County remaining in the upper tier statewide for associated overdoses and deaths.

But even amid the hopelessness and suffering that come with drug addiction, hope is emerging as community groups collaborate on solutions.

At its first meeting of 2019, the Culpeper County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a permit to open the area’s first long-term drug treatment center. Mountain View Community Church is leading the push for the facility, called Christ-Centered Addiction Restoration Services, or CARS, on a 39-acre horse farm off U.S. 15 south of town.

The church, which holds weekly RESTORE support groups, is working to raise $900,000 to open the place while CRUSH – Community Resources United to Stop Heroin – remains active in that mission. A collaboration of various community agencies, CRUSH held various events in 2019 including an Opioid Epidemic Town Hall in January at which Warrenton Town Councilman Sean Polster dubbed our region “the epicenter” of the deadly problem.

[Read more…] about Addiction Resources make Top 10 local stories of 2019

Filed Under: In The News Tagged With: addiction, CARS, CRUSH, MAT, medication assisted treatment, opioids, Oxford House, Rappahannock Rapidan Community Services, restore, RRCSB, treatment

Primary Sidebar

Culpeper Opioid Awareness Video

Featured Posts

Safe Medication Disposal

Love Someone with an Addiction?

Alcohol Awareness Month

Medication Assisted Recovery Support Meetings

MAT Virtual Recovery Meetings

Online Recovery Meetings & Support

Online Recovery Meetings During Coronavirus

Helping Children of Addiction

Need To Talk?

Opioid Ripples: Part 4

Death Certificates Don’t Lie

The Pain of Stigma

Follow & Subscribe

RSS
Follow by Email
Facebook
Facebook
fb-share-icon

Copyright © 2021 · Culpeper Overdose Awareness · All Rights Reserved