HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) – A Valley non-profit is seeking to take its companies on the highway with the hope of serving to these combating drug use throughout the area.
Energy in Friends is a company made up of individuals recovering from substance use, psychological well being, and trauma-related challenges, who work to assist others with their very own restoration. They provide counseling, and quite a lot of completely different companies designed to assist individuals get well.
The non-profit says there are a lot of individuals within the Valley who’re combating psychological well being and substance abuse, noting that they serve on common 1,000 individuals every year.
The group says because the COVID-19 pandemic began, they’ve seen a rise in individuals coming to them for assist with substance abuse and a variety of severe psychological well being challenges.
“Stress, anxiousness, worry, loss, grief, despair, they’re turning to coping methods which can be unhealthy at increased ranges than ever earlier than together with illicit medication and likewise alcohol,” Nicky Fadley, the manager director of Energy in Friends, mentioned.
Energy in Friends says that most people that come to them for assist with substance abuse have been combating tougher medication.
“A superb two-thirds of these are actually combating methamphetamine use. About one-third battle with heroine and opiates, after which about one other third with alcohol, and meaning a number of individuals are utilizing a number of sorts of substances as a part of their coping methods,” Fadley mentioned.
As they’ve seen extra individuals combating habit the group has determined to convey their restoration companies and a hurt discount program out on the highway to succeed in individuals everywhere in the Valley.
“We additionally distribute naloxone which is a drugs that reverses an opiate overdose, as a result of we imagine that anybody can get well, so long as there’s breathe in anyone’s lungs there’s a chance that that particular person can get well,” Fadley mentioned.
The hurt discount program is designed to cut back the hurt to those that nonetheless use medication, whereas constructing a relationship with them and connecting them to restoration companies to ultimately assist them get clear.
As they put together to launch this system, Energy in Friends is in search of assist getting a van to allow them to get the cellular substance restoration program out on the highway and produce their Hurt Discount Program to these in Rockingham, Shenandoah, Augusta, and Web page counties who can’t make it to their Harrisonburg workplace.
You possibly can study extra about Energy in Friends and the companies they provide here.
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