On Oct. 26, 2019, the Drug Enforcement Administration is sponsoring National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the public can take unwanted, unused or expired prescription drugs to designated locations. This initiative aims to reduce the number of prescription...
October is National Substance Abuse Prevention Month. There’s never been a more important time to talk about the impact of addiction on individuals, families and communities. The number of overdose deaths has skyrocketed in recent years, and countless more deaths and serious illnesses are...
SETTING CLEMENCIES During the last several decades, one of the largest criticisms of the American criminal justice system has been the excessive sentences handed down to nonviolent drug offenders. Many of those offenders were sentenced under draconian laws that required mandatory minimum sentences, some of...
Power you need! "Y'all I wanna tell you that God lives inside each and everyone of us! You have His power within you. And, you are responsible for your own happiness! You and you alone have the Power you need!" -Beyonce 🐝💙 I am a Beyonce...
Three years ago Three years ago, as I sat alone paralyzed by fear on yet another seedy motel bathroom floor, I was wondering why I had to experience a level of inexplicable internal pain for what seemed like so many years. The only explanation my...
“To watch the eyes of men and women open with wonder as they move from darkness into light, to see their lives quickly fill with new purpose and meaning, to see whole families reassembled, to see the alcoholic outcast received back into his community...
Men’s program at BRC Recovery On April 30th I had the pleasure of watching the residents of the Men’s program at BRC Recovery participate in a community service project. We spent all day at a Habitat for Humanity build-site in Manor, TX. The men tackled all...
http://benchmarkcenter.wistia.com/medias/l8v7jjkprf?embedType=seo&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=954 "Shatterproof to me is an opportunity to bring awareness to addiction, and it has given me an opportunity to proclaim my recovery. Just standing on top of the building and looking around at the city that I grew up in, in a different aspect and...
http://benchmarkcenter.wistia.com/medias/1sh7rpb5bs?embedType=seo&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=954 Mike Kerr, Recovery Coach Segue Program BRC Recovery Hello, everyone, my name is Mike Kerr. I’m a recovery coach at the Segue program at BRC Recovery. A little over three years ago, I walked into the doors of BRC Recovery, and I was in a place where...
How did I get here? A man like me is not supposed to get the redemption I have been granted. I rolled into BRC Recovery in July of 2012 a broken man. I had crashed three cars that year and overdosed twice. I lived in...
I woke up this morning feeling rested after a night of good sleep. My routine is to wake early, fix my coffee, curl up on my couch, pray, meditate and bring my God into my day. This is my favorite time of the day....
Recently I read a blog article in the Huffington Post titled "Busy is a Sickness". It described the self-created crisis of busy days and lives which most of us today are so familiar with. It went on to detail how this approach to life...
