A program in central Virginia is aimed at getting people struggling with drug addiction into treatment by giving them support from recovering addicts who have turned their lives around.
Chesterfield Patrol Officer Travis Adams, left, and peer recovery specialist Joy Bogese, right, talk with Adam Hall as part of Project Recover, in Chesterfield County, Va., Monday, Aug., 29, 2022. Project Recover is a program that embeds recovering addicts with police and ambulance crews in central Virginia to respond to overdose calls and to go on patrol to reach out to people struggling with drug addiction to try to get them into treatment programs.
Most days, Bogese and Nunnally are out on patrol with police in Richmond and Chesterfield. They respond to 911 overdose calls and also patrol areas around abandoned buildings, cheap motels and parking lots, looking for the signs of addiction. “Did you think about what we talked about?” Bogese asks, reminding him about some treatment options she suggested during their first meeting.Bogese says she respects his honesty and hands him some“He has those ideas and options we talked about, and those seeds are planted,” she says as she walks away.
The use of peer recovery specialists gained popularity in the late 1990s, when the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration began to fund grant programs specifically focused on peer recovery support services.over the last decade, peer recovery specialists have become even more prevalent. In 2015, a police chief in Massachusetts announced that opiate addicts who walked into the police station for help would not be charged with a crime.
“The goal is to get people into a treatment program rather than arrest their way out of the problem,” said Zoe Grover, PAARI's executive director. “People didn’t believe it at first — that they wouldn’t get arrested — but then people started bringing their friends to us for help,” Greenhill said.
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