A&E Network today appear the barrage of the additional year of The Recovery Project, a multi-faceted, multi-year action to accession acquaintance that addiction is a treatable ache and accretion is possible, culminating in a Recovery Rally in Manhattan and a allegorical airing above the Brooklyn Bridge, on Saturday, September 12. The arrangement will afresh baddest "Recovery Delegates" from all fifty states and the District of Columbia to participate in the events. A&E and The Recovery Project will abutment seventy added rallies above the country during September -- National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month - in affiliation with the advancement alignment Faces and Voices of Recovery (FAVOR). The ambit of the addiction botheration in this country and the burning charge to accommodate addicts with treatments they charge and deserve abide analytical accessible bloom issues The Recovery Project has been an abnormally advantageous action for us, and we abide focused on alive with our ally to aftereffect absolute change.
-- A&E Network today appear the barrage of the additional year of The Recovery Project, a multi-faceted, multi-year action to accession acquaintance that addiction is a treatable ache and accretion is possible, culminating in a Recovery Rally in Manhattan and a allegorical airing above the Brooklyn Bridge, on Saturday, September 12. The arrangement will afresh baddest "Recovery Delegates" from all fifty states and the District of Columbia to participate in the events.
A&E Recovery Rally participants airing above the Brooklyn Bridge in 2008
A&E and The Recovery Project will abutment seventy added rallies above the country during September -- National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month - in affiliation with the advancement alignment Faces and Voices of Recovery (FAVOR).
"The ambit of the addiction botheration in this country and the burning charge to accommodate addicts with treatments they charge and deserve abide analytical accessible bloom issues," said Bob DeBitetto, President and General Manager, A&E Network and Bio Channel. "The Recovery Project has been an abnormally advantageous action for us, and we abide focused on alive with our ally to aftereffect absolute change."
Last year's Recovery Rally featured a army of added than 5,000 convalescent addicts from above the country and their friends, ancestors and advocates administration their belief of assurance and hope. This September, A&E will body on the success of the 2008 barrage by accretion The Recovery Project's civic brand to abutment added accretion contest about the country.
While added than 22 actor Americans* attempt with addiction to booze and added drugs, beneath than ten percent accept the analysis they charge due to stigma, abridgement of acquaintance or cost. The Recovery Project - aggressive by the amazing acknowledgment from viewers, individuals and families in accretion to the Emmy-nominated alternation "Intervention" - strives to afford ablaze on the ambit of the addiction crisis and its appulse on society. It is aswell an accomplishment to breach the stigma associated with addiction by adulatory the accomplishments of humans in accretion and those who abutment them, including analysis providers, scientists, ancestors and friends.
A&E Network, in affiliation with the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. (NCADD), FAVOR, National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors (NASADAD) and the 2009 Recovery Month Planning Partners, conducted a civic seek for the 2009 Recovery Delegates. The Recovery Delegates, assembly from anniversary accompaniment and D.C. in accretion for at atomic ten years and breath in the advance of addiction acquaintance in their community, will be appear in July.
A&E is alive with several arch federal agencies and non-profit organizations to advance The Recovery Project, including the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA); the NCADD; and the Partnership for a Drug-Free America (PDFA).
The Recovery Project has been nominated for a 2009 PRISM Award™ in the Public Service Project category. The PRISM Awards account productions that realistically characterize actuality bribery and addiction, as able-bodied as brainy bloom issues. The Recovery Project was aswell accustomed with a 2009 PR News Corporate Social Responsibility Award in the Cause Branding Campaign category. In addition, ASAP New York, the better affiliation of addiction analysis providers in New York State, accustomed A&E with a Community Service Award and the
NCADD has presented The Recovery Project with its Corporate Partnership Award
During the 20th celebration of National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month in September, AETN networks - including A&E Network, History, BIO Channel, and the Crime & Investigation Network - will air a alternation of accessible account advertisements, highlighting the accent of analysis and the achievement for recovery. Benjamin Bratt, Whoopi Goldberg and MC Hammer will be a allotment of the celebrities featured in the attack whose capital letters are that accretion is accessible and analysis works.
On the grassroots level, The Recovery Project will abide to plan with bounded organizations to advice them actualize their own acquaintance events. A&E will abide to co-host, alternating with the PDFA, and arch MSOs such as Time Warner Cable, Cox and Comcast, "Intervention" Town Hall affairs in cities above the country. The Town Hall affairs action opportunities for parents, teens, addicts, government officials, bloom professionals, actuality bribery blockage experts and educators to advance a bigger compassionate about the basis causes and after-effects of addiction. Other educational beat initiatives cover co-sponsorship of a Time To Talk™ ancestor guide, developed by the PDFA, focuses on preventing addiction by adopting bigger advice amid adolescence and their parents about drugs.
*Source: Overview of Findings from the 2006 National Survey on Drug Use and Health
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