Addiction either directly or indirectly touches the lives of nearly every person living in the US. It tears apart families and friendships. Ruins lives and impacts the economy. It is a powerful force of negative energy that only knows destruction and loss. The statistics are too heartbreaking to list.

Yet it is not hopeless. At VOA Northern New England, there are countless individuals who work every day to provide recovery services, helping those afflicted with this horrible disease to find a new way of living. One without drugs or alcohol. A life of freedom from the bondage of addiction. Those of us who live this new way of life and strive to help others call this recovery.