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Expanded recovery center in Saratoga Springs helping people fight addiction

09.23.19

Seen on: WRGB Channel 6

Thursday, July 25, 2019

CBS6 is committed to covering the opioid crisis and how people and organizations are fighting against it. The latest installment in our series takes us to Saratoga Springs. Jack Lamson shows us a newly expanded recovery center helping people deal with addiction in its many forms.

Saratoga Springs Recovery Center Expands

09.23.19

Seen in/Heard on: WAMC Northeast Public Radio 

Friday, May 17, 2019

A recovery center in Saratoga Springs has doubled in size. The center hopes to provide new programs for people battling addiction and their families. WAMC’s Southern Adirondack Bureau Chief Lucas Willard took a tour.

Healing Springs Recovery and Outreach Center in Saratoga Springs has a new look. Through funding from the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services and the federal State Opioid Response program, the recovery center that opened on High Rock Avenue in 2016 has expanded from 1,500 to 3,000 square feet.

The expansion includes a new library, office space, an art room, and a multi-purpose “living room” that can be used free of charge for people in recovery or seeking recovery. There’s also a larger, existing room that can be used for a variety of meetings and activities.

Janine Stuchin is Executive Director of The Prevention Council of Saratoga, which operates the recovery center.

“But here we can have on Friday nights, yoga can be going on on one side, we can have movie night on this side. Or game night. Or people that simply want to come here and talk, but not do art. So folks are doing are in the other room…” said Stuchin.

The center does not provide treatment services, but is intended to be a sober environment where people can support each other.

Stuchin says the center is “heavily utilized.” Healing Springs accommodates 400 people a month.

“We are open and support all methods, all paths to recovery. So we would welcome anybody in recovery, seeking recovery from addiction, and their family members. And family can come even if a loved one is not ready to go through treatment and seek recovery,” said Stuchin.

In addition to offering new programs and activities, the expansion has allowed Healing Springs to bring on a new part-time certified recovery peer advocate.

Family Support Navigator Brendan Norton, who is in recovery himself, has a master’s degree in counseling and works with families across Saratoga, Warren, and Washington County.

“So my role changes  a lot – this thing rings all the time – so that’s often a big part of what my day looks like…” said Norton.

Norton says Healing Springs is a place where people looking to overcome substance abuse can be referred to other services. He says it also can be a place where families can meet other families in similar situations.

“There’s very much the stigma of addiction that’s still alive today. And I had one mom say to me, ‘I don’t know what’s worse, my daughter’s addiction or other’s attitudes about her addiction.’ So families can connect with other families who are here for the same reason. And there’s no judgement. So that’s one of the biggest things. It’s a judgement free zone and a little bit of hope,” said Norton.

Healing Springs is located at the Mill at 125 High Rock Avenue in Saratoga Springs

Talking to Kids About Drinking During the Prom Season

09.23.19

Seen on: Spectrum News In Focus

Sunday, May 05, 2019

 

Shen middle schools host vaping informational meeting

06.24.19

Seen in: The Daily Gazette

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

CLIFTON PARK — A group of parents in the Shenendehowa Central School District on Monday night learned about the growing use of electronic cigarettes and how the practice could be affecting their children. For many of them, it was their first real introduction to the topic.

The meeting, held in the Gowana Middle School Auditorium, was co-hosted by the Prevention Council in Saratoga Springs and a special committee made up of parents, administrators, board members and teachers meant to combat vaping in the district and educate students about the trend, especially younger students.

Unlike traditional cigarettes or cigars, e-cigarettes require no combustion and produce no smoke and contain no tobacco. Instead, they boil liquids containing nicotine and salts that produce an aerosol cloud.

One brand specifically, the Juul, with its small, sleek and easy-to-conceal design, has given its name to the larger trend of young students using the device, or “Juuling.”

As Shen grapples with a rising tide of students who use such devices, health teachers and other district officials are trying to figure out how to teach parents, students and staff members about a dangerous device that is easily accessible, utilizes addictive chemicals, and yet, until recently, has gone largely unstudied and unregulated.

Bill Luke, the assistant principal at Acadia Middle School who is on the committee, kicked off the presentation by assuring parents that, while vaping is often referred to as an epidemic in high schools, it hasn’t reached that point in the district’s middle schools.

Last year, the Food and Drug Administration reported that from 2017 to 2018 the number of high school students who used e-cigarettes had jumped up by 1.3 million.

“I want to be very clear. Vaping is not an epidemic here in our middle school,” he said.  “Is it happening in our school? No, not really. Is it happening a little bit with certain students outside of school? We’re hearing a little bit more and more about that,” he said.

Luke added that the middle schools are in a unique position: They can work on preventative measures to ensure that young students go into high school armed with knowledge.

“We have a really wonderful and unique opportunity to not be reactive, like they have to be at the high school, but to be proactive,” he said.

Many parents at Monday’s event knew next to nothing about vaping in schools. As they walked into the auditorium, one parent, Maria Atwood, talked about how she had found a Juul in the cushion of the sofa in her home.

“It touches everybody, but I don’t know anything about it,” she said.

Patty Kilgore, director of school-based services at the Prevention Council in Saratoga Springs, explained that the rise of Juuling happened quickly.

A huge chunk of time her job currently, she said, is spent researching electronic cigarette use and explaining what the issues are with the devices to parents.

“This is 90 percent of my job right now,” Kilgore said.

Throughout the presentation, other parents expressed shock as they learned about the sweet and sugary flavors used to entice people to electronic smoking devices, as well as the brightly colored advertising that often floods the social media spheres of their children.

Others expressed dismay at the lack of federal regulation of the devices.

Kilgore said adults are not necessarily the customer base the electronic cigarette companies are courting.

“It’s been out there. We just haven’t seen it,” she said to the parents.

As more kids turn to vaping, Shen teaches them why they shouldn’t

03.25.19

Seen in: The Daily Gazette

Monday, March 24, 2019

District’s three middle school health teachers develop, refine curriculum to educate students about habit, its dangers

CLIFTON PARK — As eighth-grade students in Amy Preston’s health class at Gowana Middle School huddled together in teams at their desks and pored over the decades-old cigarette advertisements that had been placed in front of them to analyze, they slowly began to realize something — the vintage advertisements looked suspiciously similar to the vibrant ads for electronic cigarettes that they were also examining.

“What do we know about nicotine?” Preston asked her students on day two of a multiclass lab that specifically covered almost every aspect of electronic cigarettes, from their ingredients to how they’re advertised.

“It’s highly addictive,” said one student.

“Nicotine causes cancer,” answered another.

Unlike traditional cigarettes or cigars, e-cigarettes require no combustion and produce no smoke and contain no tobacco. Instead, they boil liquids containing nicotine and salts that produce an aerosol cloud.

One brand specifically, the Juul, with its small, sleek and easy-to-conceal design, has given its name to the larger trend of young students using the device, or “Juuling.”

As the Shenendehowa Central School District grapples with a rising tide of students who use such devices both inside and outside of school, Preston and other district officials are trying to answer one question: how do they teach parents, students and staff members about a dangerous device that is easily accessible, utilizes addictive chemicals, and yet, until recently, has gone largely unstudied and unregulated?

A NEW TREND

Shen High School Principal Ron Agostinoni confirmed that e-cigarette use definitely is an issue at the school and that the district would be naive to think that it wasn’t.

Last year, the Food and Drug Administration reported that from 2017 to 2018, the number of high school students who used e-cigarettes had jumped up by 1.3 million.

Shen is a massive school district, with a student population often edging close to 10,000.

Agostinoni said while the district uses the amount of materials confiscated and the number of disciplinary referrals issued to keep a rough tally, he didn’t have specific numbers for exactly how many out of the 3,200 high school students vape. He estimated that it’s probably somewhere in the hundreds.

“It’s a concerning number. It’s not dozens. I don’t think we’re talking about five, 15, 20,” he said.

The issue, Agostinoni said, is obviously there. Juuls specifically are small, difficult to detect due to the lack of smoke and smell they give off, and can look like pens or flash drives.

Although the issue stares school district officials directly in their faces, Agostinoni said the solution is not as simple as cracking down on students.

If a student is addicted to nicotine, confiscating the device and putting him or her in detention will not keep them from continuing to seek out nicotine, he said.

“We want the student experience to still be the student experience. We want to treat our students like the young adults they are. If the kid is addicted, they’re going to continue that behavior. We’re just trying to make sure that we keep them safe,” he said.

Buildingwide adjustments have seen some success, such as posting monitors outside of restrooms, where students often use the devices, and implementing some sign-in policies.

The district has also hosted a number of public meetings focused directly on vaping and will host more in the future.

From what he’s seen in the high school, Agostinoni said the issue is being handled more effectively than it was a few months ago, mostly because he and his staff are learning about the specifics of the devices and keeping an open dialogue with students.

Unfortunately, he said, the solution is not totally in hand yet, and due to the rapid speed at which students are becoming addicted to the devices, it will probably get worse before it gets better.

“It’s not just kids these days,” Agostinoni said.

EXPERT OPINION

Patty Kilgore, director of school-based services at the Prevention Council in Saratoga Springs, said the rise of Juuling happened quickly, in less than five years.

Around 2015, she said, when electronic vaporizer company PAX Labs unveiled the Juul, there was an immediate and high demand for the device.

The company then received an influx of cash investments, primarily from tobacco companies, Kilgore said, allowing PAX Labs to manufacture more devices until there was a surplus in 2017, which is about the time students started getting access to Juuls in local stores, or online.

“It happened very, very quickly,” Kilgore said.

Now, Kilgore said, the Juuling issue has become a double-edged sword.

While health organizations try to keep young students from becoming addicted to nicotine, they also have to somehow teach teenagers that the products are being specifically marketed to them, despite a continued denial from electronic cigarette companies. Vaping from a Juul is widely equated to smoking as much as a pack of cigarettes a day.

“The kids are the ones this is being marketed to, not the adults. They want a lifetime consumer,” Kilgore said.

The companies that sell vaping devices have become skilled at developing a massive online advertising presence, primarily on social media applications including Instagram and Twitter, Kilgore said.

By utilizing those platforms, on which young adults spend hours each day, as well as using flavors that seem innocuous or intriguing such as mint, mango, or crème, the e-cigarette companies have found a ready and susceptible audience.

However, as the medical research into e-cigarettes grows, so does the preparedness of people who are trying to stop the trend from continuing.

While Kilgore agrees that the issue might get worse before it gets better, for now, school districts and health advocates have to continue to focus on educating both parents and students.

Kilgore herself does one to three presentations each week at schools about vaping and Juuling, and those presentations change week to week.

“It’s about trying to get them to understand what the truth is. They’re being lied to, basically,” she said.

IN THE HALLS

Katey Witz, an eighth-grader at Gowana and a student in Preston’s health class, has found herself in a situation at least once in which someone around her has a Juul. She has never taken anyone up on their offer when they ask if she wants to use it.

Witz says she has lost friends due to her refusals, as vaping habits are a red flag for her anyway. She doesn’t want to be friends with people who vape.

She sees people filming themselves smoking out of the devices on Snapchat, a social media platform that allows users to send pictures and videos to each other that self-delete after a few seconds.

“It’s everywhere, honestly. I know many kids who have made the bad decision of doing it,” Witz said.

While Witz first learned about nicotine in fifth grade, she explained that it was only during a recent health class where she learned that people her age are the prime targets of e-cigarette companies.

“These companies are really targeting teenagers and saying that there’s nothing bad in them,” she said about the Juul advertisements. “Even some of the ads we were looking at were specifically saying, ‘this is good for you.’ ”

“One of the things I learned was that the cigarette companies actually managed to hold off the government in looking into what they were doing. That shocked me. I know now more about the tobacco industry than I ever have, and I’m only 14,” laughed Tommy Quinn, another eighth-grade student in Preston’s class.

Quinn knows that, in reality, Juuls are not something to be laughed at.

Quinn’s grandfather died before he was born due to his smoking habit, and that personal connection to tragedy caused by smoking weighs heavily on him.

“My brother is in the high school, and it’s a really big and bad thing there,” Quinn said. “The fact that [e-cigarette companies] are trying to ruin people’s lives disgusts me. This is serious,” Quinn said.

On the administrative side of things, both Preston and Bill Luke, the assistant principal at Acadia Middle School, believe that their students realize that knowledge is power.

The goal, they said, is to reach kids while they’re in middle school, before they get to high school, where vaping is a larger issue. It’s crucial to show them now that the question of whether to vape or not vape shouldn’t even be considered, they explained.

In order to reach students across sixth, seventh and eighth grades, Preston, along with Shen’s two other middle school health teachers, Jessica Hull and Carol Funyack, collaborate on lesson plans related to vaping and change them according to how students respond to certain aspects.

The middle schools also plan to work with the Prevention Council to bring in additional education about vaping and Juuling, Luke noted, adding that as of recently, a committee made up of parents, school teachers and administration has been formed specifically to tackle the issue at Shen.

“It’s probably happening to some extent in the building, but it’s challenging to detect. We’re trying to be proactive,” Luke said.

Preston, citing the multitudes of people who have died or become ill from cigarette use over the decades, said the emergence of vaping gives her the uneasy feeling of tragedy on the horizon, another round of massive loss of life and health that her young students are right in the center of.

Casting a light on what she calls a false narrative from electronic cigarette companies and arming students with the knowledge that will make them realize what is truly being hawked at them is, at this point, the best shot Shen has at solving the Juuling problem and, on a larger scale, preventing another generation of nicotine addicts from being born.

“I’m just hoping that these kids see that sooner rather than later,” she said.

Capital Region nonprofits win grants to expand addiction recovery services

03.07.19

Seen in: Times Union

Monday, March 4, 2019

ALBANY — Two Capital Region nonprofits that assist people in recovery from addiction were awarded state funding Friday to establish and expand recovery services in their communities.

Second Chance Opportunities, an Albany nonprofit that helps individuals fresh out of addiction treatment find stable housing and employment, was awarded $350,000 to establish a recovery community center in Albany.

The center will be located at 55 Colvin Ave., where the nonprofit moved its headquarters last November. Co-founder Kellie Roe told the Times Union at the time that she always intended to open a community center in the space, regardless of whether her organization won a state grant, which was awarded through a competitive Request for Applications process.

“The community needs this,” she said. “We’ve been at this too long, we’ve been filling this gap for too long not to give the community this.”

At Second Chance Opportunities, the grant will allow Roe to hire a manager for the community center, a coordinator and a recovery coach.

The Prevention Council of Saratoga County was also awarded funding — $80,000 to expand services at its recovery community center at 125 High Rock Ave. in Saratoga Springs.

The center, known as Healing Springs, hosts mutual aid groups, yoga and meditation classes, and sober social events around the Super Bowl, Labor Day and other holidays. It also provides family support navigators to those who are wondering how to assist loved ones through recovery.

New York has pushed for the creation of recovery community centers in recent years, as the state battles an overdose epidemic and a growing number of people seeking treatment for drug addiction.

The state Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services announced Friday more than $5.1 million in funding to establish 14 new recovery community centers across the state, and expand services at two existing recovery centers.

The centers promote long-term recovery by providing professional staff, peers and volunteers to engage and support people in recovery. Services include peer support, skill building, recreation, wellness education, employment readiness and sober social activities.

12 Saratoga County establishments cited in underage drinking check

02.21.19

Seen on: WNYT

February 19, 2019 06:17 PM

A two-day underage drinking operation in Saratoga County ends with 12 establishments accused of violating the law.

The state’s beverage control law prohibits the sale of an alcoholic beverage to a person under the age of 21 years.

Eighty stores and eateries were checked. Twelve establishments and their employees were issued a ticket.

The sheriff’s office says the goal of the operation was to not only check for proper ID, but to curb underage drinking.


The following businesses were cited:

1. City Sports Grille (Sparetime Bowling Alley), St. Rt. 9 in the Town of Halfmoon

2. Speedway, 100 Commerce Drive in the Town of Clifton Park

3. Speedway, 229 Church Avenue in the Town of Ballston

4. The Whitehouse Restaurant and Bar, 95 Milton Ave in the Village of Ballston Spa

5. Post Time Wine and Spirits, 170 South Broadway in the City of Saratoga Springs

6. Red Cap Mobile, 177 South Broadway in the City of Saratoga Springs

7. Humbuggs, 569 Gansevoort Road in the Town of Moreau

8. Friendly Spirits, Wines & Liquors, 1346 St. Rt. 9 in the Town of Moreau

9. Tim’s Discount Liquors, 139 St. Rt. 9 in the Town of Moreau

10. Jones & 50 Wine and Spirits, 4208 St. Rt. 50 in the Town of Wilton

11. Stewarts Shops, 43 Bluebird Road in the Town of Moreau

12. Gulf Gas Station, 10 Round Lake Road in the Town of Malta

Letter to the editor: Local drug drop boxes promoted

02.19.19

02.14.19

Seen in: The Post Star

Editor:

As our communities continue to be impacted by opioid addiction, we are promoting local drug drop boxes to provide a safe and accessible option to dispose of prescription or over-the-counter medications. Emptying the medicine cabinet can prevent children and others from obtaining and misusing these medications. It’s important to properly dispose of unused, excess or expired medications to keep our local waterways from being contaminated. Disposal is free and anonymous at the two permanent drop box locations in our area: the Warren County Sheriff’s Office located at 1400 Route 9, Lake George and Glens Falls City Police Department located at 42 Ridge St., Glens Falls. These sites are open 24/7 and your medication can be in the container or in a bag. Just get it out of your home!

The Community Coalition for Family Wellness (CCFW) in South Glens Falls and The Prevention Council of Saratoga County advocate for proper disposal of unused prescription medications. Take advantage of these permanent drop boxes and keep an eye out for our annual National DEA Drug Take Back Day in April!

Alex Barr, The Prevention Council of Saratoga County, Saratoga Springs

Editorial: Arrest a reminder of dangers of underage drinking

01.13.19

01.13.19

Seen in: The Daily Gazette
Link to full article: https://dailygazette.com/article/2019/01/13/editorial-arrest-a-reminder-of-dangers-of-underage-drinking

For many kids, exposure to alcohol at a young age can be a harbinger of other problems

What’s the big deal?

The kids were all in the house. They were safe. They weren’t out running the streets causing trouble. They weren’t doing hard drugs.

So what’s the problem when adults condone underage drinking in their home?

That’s the question a lot of people might be asking following the arrest of a Wilton couple and their 20-year-old son for hosting an underage drinking party on New Year’s Eve.

In all, about a dozen kids age 17-20 were at the party, where the adults supplied the alcohol, the venue and the alibi.

In the wake of the opioid epidemic, bullying, distracted driving, the dangers associated with social media, and other issues facing teenagers these days, it would be easy to push underage drinking to the bottom of the worry pile.

But underage drinking is now, just as it was a decade ago and decades before that, a pervasive problem in our society that we can’t afford to stop taking seriously.

According to the Prevention Council — a Saratoga Springs-based nonprofit organization that works to prevent alcohol, drug and other substance abuse — alcohol remains the most commonly used and abused drug among youth in the United States.

Each year in the U.S., more than 4,300 people die as a result of underage drinking — either through motor vehicle accidents, suicide and homicide, and accidental overdose.

When parents condone or — in the Wilton case — encourage and support underage drinking, they’re contributing to the damaging effects that alcohol has both immediately and in the long-term on children who are too young to handle it.

According to the Prevention Council, 11 percent of all the alcohol consumed in the United States is by underage drinkers, age 12-20.

Within any 30-day period, more than a quarter of kids will consume alcohol and more than 17 percent of that group will binge drink, which can lead to alcohol poisoning and other issues.

Drinking, especially by youth, can contribute to a whole host of health and social issues, including poor attendance and performance in school; dangerous and inappropriate decisions due to behavioral issues; problems with memory and thinking; depression; low-self esteem and in some cases suicide.

Young women and girls in particular can often find themselves in dangerous situations due to alcohol use that can lead to rape and sexual assault, sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancy.

While kids today seem to be more cognizant of the dangers of drunk driving and have more means than older generations to get home safely, such as ride-sharing and cabs, many kids still make the bad judgment of drinking and driving. And when kids do it, they’re often distracted by friends in the car and their phones, which can make their adventures on the road even more dangerous to themselves, their passengers and other motorists.

For many kids, exposure to alcohol at a young age can be a harbinger of other problems, including abuse of tobacco and drugs and alcohol-dependency as adults.

When parents support their children’s drinking by hosting parties for them and their friends, it sends the message that there’s no harm in what they’re doing.

That potential harm is the precise reason why we place age limits on alcohol and tobacco consumption in the first place.

But if parents and other adults — the people who have direct contact and influence with children — don’t understand or respect the problems that alcohol use among young people can cause, then the threat to our children’s health and well-being will continue and get worse.

Underage drinking was and is still a serious problem.

We need to continue to take it seriously and to do what we can, starting in our own households, to stop it.

High schools helping hungry students

01.14.18

Seen in: The Post Star
Story by: Bill Toscano

 

Two area high schools are setting up facilities to allow students to obtain food and health supplies at no cost.

School officials in Whitehall and South Glens Falls are pursuing the idea, though both schools are avoiding the use of the phrase “food pantry” because of its stigma.

“We are going to call it ‘The Country Cupboard’ and it will have a separate entrance so it is not that visible,” said Deb Mackey, food services director at Whitehall schools, who helped develop the idea along with her staff.

“It’s a marvelous program,” said Whitehall Superintendent Patrick Dee. “Deb Mackey is a heck of a lady and she and her staff came up with this idea. I think it’s just spectacular.”

Mackey, who is new to Whitehall, said she and her staff had heard students telling them that they did not have enough food, especially on the weekends, and decided to pursue the program.

Community effort
In South Glens Falls, the outreach is a combined effort of a high school club and the Moreau Community Center.

In both cases, the focus is on high school students.

Many school districts, including Whitehall and South Glens Falls, have backpack programs for younger students in the lower grades on weekends and holidays, and those do include food for the whole family.

But there has been no specific focus on the high schools in the backpack programs.

At South Glens Falls, Michelle Smallwood, who coordinates a class and a club called Reconnecting Youth for the Prevention Council, started running a drug and alcohol prevention class.

“Mrs. Smallwood and her club have shown a tremendous amount of initiative and compassion in thinking of our students who are struggling to have basic needs met,” South High Principal Peter Mody said of the Weekend Bridge Food Pantry, which is located in the office area of the school. “This is part of the South Glens Falls culture — to act directly in support of others who are in need.”

The Reconnecting Youth class has been running at South High for 14 years, and this is Smallwood’s first year as its teacher. One of the first things she did was organize a club to follow up on issues discussed in the class, which focuses on self-esteem and helping the community.

Sophomore Danka Henderson and freshman Nick Matrazzo are co-presidents, and other members include freshman Dylan Greco and senior Hayley Bills.

“At the beginning of the year, we were brainstorming ideas and a food pantry was one of the first ideas,” Matrazzo said.

The program will start at the high school and then expand to the middle school. South Glens Falls elementary schools already have weekend backpack programs.

“I thought it was awesome that everyone was so willing to help the community,” Henderson said.

Bills agreed.

“It really has shown me that we are South Glens Falls and it brings out the caring in South Glens Falls in more ways,” she said.

Hannaford supermarkets has already donated 30 food boxes, and Smallwood said the school is looking for more partners.

“We want to be building partnerships,” Smallwood said. “It’s really important for our students to be doing that. We definitely want to build it up and be able to maintain the pantry.”

At SUNY Adirondack, Yasmin Lopez, director of SUNY Adirondack’s Community Hub, saw a need as well. At the end of October, the college opened its Community Food Source in the Student Center.

The college’s Food Source is open to any students and there is no charge.

 

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