Airing Addiction: The Important Link Between Fitness and Recovery
Over the past few weeks, our vice president of business development – Donna Pellegrino – has shone a light on a powerful tool on the road to recovery: fitness. Working out and pursuing fitness goals creates a new outlet for stress relief and allows individuals in recovery to put their ...
Demystifying Series: Understanding Relapse as a Part of Recovery
Those who have escaped personal experience with active addiction may associate the word relapse with weakness, failure or giving up. This could not be further from the truth. Many also mistakenly believe that once an individual has completed treatment, the journey ends there. While a universally hopeful scenario, the truth ...
Free “boot camp”: Exercise regimen helps addicts in recovery
Telegram & Gazette
Date: 10/09/16
WORCESTER – Brian Keith, a 37-year-old city resident and banker who's recovering from crack cocaine and alcohol addictions, said he hadn't worked out in three months.
Three Ways to Identify Addiction
Identifying the Issue: Three Signs Commonly Found in Substance Use and Addiction Addiction can happen to anyone. A next door neighbor, best friend’s son, cousin, or even mom and dad. Addiction knows no boundaries; it sees no race, gender, geography or economic status. Becoming addicted doesn’t always start with wandering ...
Changing Prisons in Virginia
Spectrum has joined with the Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) in an important experiment with the potential of impacting prison systems throughout the country by reframing the mission and function of prisons. A powerful combination of circumstance has aligned in Virginia where Spectrum Health Systems operates a 1,080 bed Therapeutic ...
Why Addiction Needs to be Brought Out from Under the Rug
There are many misperceptions in our society about people experiencing an alcohol or drug problem. They're called addicts, even failures. They are weak, lazy and have no self-control. They are homeless. They are worthless. They can’t be trusted. Would you be able to admit to yourself or to others that ...
Business Development Team Grows Through the Hiring of Lauren Cappello and Pat Anderson as Spectrum’s New Regional Business Development Liaisons
In response to the continuing opioid epidemic, Spectrum recently expanded its business development department to help address the growing need for addiction treatment throughout New England. Lauren Cappello and Pat Anderson join Spectrum as regional business development liaisons. Spectrum’s business development team is headed by Vice President of Business Development ...
Spectrum Health Systems Expands Business Development Team
WORCESTER, MA – October 06, 2016 – Spectrum Health Systems, the largest private non-profit substance abuse and mental health treatment provider in New England, announced it has expanded its business development team through the addition of Pat Anderson and Lauren Cappello as regional business development liaisons. Both will be based in Spectrum’s Worcester offices.
