Sep 14, 2021 | General, In The News, Informational
Fatal overdoses are preventable. Overdose deaths from fentanyl and other synthetic opioids are dramatically on the rise in the United States. Over 800,000 people have died of overdoses in the United States since 1999 and most of these deaths were from some form of...
Sep 14, 2021 | In The News, Press, Staff Spotlight
North America continues to experience the highest drug-related mortality rate in the world, accounting for one in four drug-related deaths globally, according to United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reports. In August 2021, the Centers for Disease Control has...
Aug 12, 2021 | In The News, Informational, Press
How COVID-19 is Increasing Overdose Deaths and How Phoenix House is Here to Help When people hear pandemic today COVID-19 immediately springs to mind. Although this current epidemic is serious and deadly, there is another epidemic that has been taking American lives...
Apr 26, 2021 | In The News, Insights, Press
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd went into a grocery store and bought a pack of cigarettes. The store clerk called the police because he suspected the $20 bill was counterfeit and that Mr. Floyd may have been intoxicated. Seventeen minutes after the first squad car...
Nov 19, 2019 | In The News
Our Prevention Team reached 400+ students and 143 parents with the drug awareness message at Bert Corona Charter Middle School during National Red Ribbon Week—the nation’s largest and longest-running drug awareness and prevention program. Since its beginning in...
Jun 29, 2019 | In The News
Shawna Morris, who celebrated her 3-year anniversary with Phoenix House California, was asked to share her thoughts about her greatest accomplishments and goals for 2019. As Shawna reflects back on her time at Phoenix House, she says her greatest accomplishment has...
