MCCPL: National Recovery Month

Paducah KY

18 September, 2021

6:37 PM

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Press release from the McCracken County Public Library: Library Staff September 18, 2021 September 20th is National Addiction Professionals Day and is part of National Recovery Month. From Narcan to readings on harm reduction, McCracken County Public Library is glad to support our community's health and wellbeing.   Narcan Training and Pickup  Narcan saves lives. We've partnered with Purchase District Health Department to provide a supply of the safe, effective and nonaddictive opioid antagonist, along with access to training on how and when to use it, right here at the Library. It's available at the first floor information desk–with no stigma and no judgement–to anyone in the community who might be at risk of witnessing an opioid overdose.  Library Materials  Self Help, Trauma and Healing  The Body Keeps the Score: brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.  Unspoken Legacy by Claudia Black  Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma by Pete Walker  The Spirituality of Imperfection by Ernie Kurtz – Hoopla eAudiobook  Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David D. Burns, M.D. – Overdrive eBook  The Big Fix: Hope After Heroin by Tracey Helton Mitchell  Beyond Survival by Various Authors  Substance Use Disorders in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Clients by Sandra C. Anderson  Fundamentals of LGBT Substance Use Disorders by Michael Shelton  Biographies  Nothing Good Can Come From This by Kristi Coulter  Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain  Qualification: A Graphic Memoir in Twelve Steps by David Heatley  Strung out: one last hit and other lies that nearly killed me  by Erin Khar  Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction by Elizabeth Vargas  Addiction and Society  Fighting For Space: how a group of drug users transformed one city's struggle with addiction by Travis Lupick  Rx Appalachia by Lesly-Marie Buer  Dopesick : dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America by Beth Macy  Harm Reduction  Special thanks to East Tennessee Harm Reduction for the title recommendations.  The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession Along the Rio Grande by Angela Garcia  Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction by Maia Szalavitz  Righteous Dopefiend by Philippe Bourgois  Free Resources Available Online  Harm Reduction Coalition resource center  Grieving Overdose Zine: Your Grief Matters and So Do You  This Naked Mind podcast  Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders  Free Download Here  Smart Recovery  Article: Anthony Bourdain's Fight with Addiction and Apparent Suicide  This press release was produced by the McCracken County Public Library. The views expressed here are the author's own.