[New post] Peers in Healing

Livia Gershon posted: "Livia Gershon | Longreads | June 2019 | 8 minutes (1,883 words) On a Tuesday morning in May, Priscilla Matos was at Revive Recovery Center, an art gallery-turned substance use recovery hub on Main Street in Nashua, New Hampshire, organizing supplies and " New post on Longreads Peers in Healing by Livia Gershon Livia Gershon | Longreads | June 2019 | 8 minutes (1,883 words) On a Tuesday morning in May, Priscilla Matos was at Revive Recovery Center, an art gallery-turned substance use recovery hub on Main Street in Nashua, New Hampshire, organizing supplies and filling out paperwork. Around her, hand-lettered signs offered advice: "Find Your Purpose," "Love Yourself Everyday." On a nearby bulletin board, flyers advertised support groups that borrowed wisdom from Christianity and Buddhism. A man with tattoos wearing a New England Patriots shirt came by; Matos showed him how to make tea with a plug-in pot and congratulated him on landing in a sober housing program. Matos, who is 28, with dark-rimmed glasses and a warm smile, helps visitors at Revive find whatever resources they need—food pantries, treatment centers, places where they can take a shower and wash their clothes. She's good at it in part because, for much of the past decade, she's needed those kinds of things herself. Read more of this post Livia Gershon | June 10, 2019 at 8:00 am | Tags: medical care, medicine, opioid crisis, opioid epidemic, opioids, politics | Categories: profile, Profiles & Interviews, Story, Uncategorized | URL: https://wp.me/p4KhvY-wCJ Like Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Longreads. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://longreads.com/2019/06/10/peers-in-healing/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com