2. New website section for Family & Friends 3. The McClatchy Co.’s purchase of Knight Ridder Inc. 4. Silent Treatment reporters in the spotlight
We are beginning to hear from newspapers interested in publishing the Silent Treatment series after its Aug. 2 release from Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service. Two papers are the Roanoke Daily Herald in Roanoke Rapids, NC, and the Daily World in Aberdeen, WA. If your newspaper has agreed to publish, please send us an email.
2. New ST Web site section for Family & Friends In response to feedback from the field, we’ve added a new resource section, Family & Friends, on the Silent Treatment homepage. Here, those seeking information to help themselves or a loved one will find a meeting locator, intervention tips, resources and screening tools. If you have something you would like us to include in the new section, just send us an email.
3. The McClatchy Co.’s purchase of Knight Ridder Inc. Now there's even more reason to encourage your local newspaper editors to publish the Silent Treatment series. Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services (KRT), which will distribute Public Access Journalism’s Silent Treatment nationwide, now has a new name ––McClatchy-Tribune Information Services (MCT) –– reflecting The McClatchy Co.’s purchase of Knight Ridder Inc. The change will mean even greater reach and promotion for Silent Treatment when McClatchy’s current 12 daily newspapers eventually join the fold as contributors and subscribers to the McClatchy-Tribune News Service. MCT’s contributor’s list now expands to include The Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Remaining as contributors are the Knight Ridder papers McClatchy is acquiring, as well as most of the Knight Ridder papers it is selling. MCT will continue to offer stories and art from the Chicago Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, the New York Daily News, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Orlando Sentinel, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Seattle Times and The Orange County Register. In January 2007, coming on board as contributors will be the rest of the current McClatchy papers, including The Sacramento Bee; The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.; the Anchorage Daily News and more. For a full list of MCT newspapers, click here. 4. ST reporters in the spotlight Our last featured reporter for the Silent Treatment newspaper series is Jodi Mailander Farrell, who examined the issue of recovery in her stories. Jodi has distinguished herself as an education reporter for eight years at The Miami Herald and for four years at The Palm Beach Post, having covered two of the nation’s largest school districts in Miami-Dade and Broward counties. She won the “best overall coverage” School Bell award from the American Federation of Teachers/Florida for six years in a row, as well as numerous national awards. Her reporting has led to several systemic changes, including the way special education is funded statewide and the inclusion of “biracial” as an ethnic category for student registration in Florida public schools. She is currently a part-time travel editor and columnist for The Herald and a People magazine correspondent. She lives in Miami with her daughters, Annie and Lucy, and her husband, Patrick, a photographer for the Herald.
Here’s a summary of what our story on recovery will cover:
For a community of people — believed to number in the millions — who
have learned to live with their addictions, overcoming an age-old
silence is the next big challenge. A small but growing group of
activists bubbling up from national, state and local recovery groups are
hoping to end discrimination against addicts, drumming up moral and
financial support by modeling their efforts after the public awareness
campaigns that pushed breast cancer and AIDS onto the country’s radar
screen. “We’ve got to get the message out there,” says Dorian Grey
Parker, who has opened a Connecticut recovery house for other addicts
since he got clean eight years ago, and turned out for last year’s
annual Recovery Walk. “I show up for the newcomers, who are finding hope
in seeing people with multiple years of recovery, and I come out for the
clueless. There is such a moral stigma attached to this disease. It all
comes from not understanding, but we can change that.” The movement is
made up of a sprawling underground network as diverse as addiction
itself, united in its goal to make alcohol and drug addiction a public
health issue.
Join Together makes Blueprint for the States available! Blueprint for the States: Policies to Improve the Ways States Organize and Deliver Alcohol and Drug Prevention and Treatment reports the findings and recommendations of the national policy panel convened by Join Together and chaired by former Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis. To download or order a copy of the report, click here.
Show your support of people in recovery, their family members and friends with Faces and Voices of Recovery’s Another Voice for Recovery campaign buttons. Order yours today!
Drs. Dole and Nyswander first published “Heroin Addiction - A Metabolic Disease” in the Archives of Internal Medicine 48 years ago. During that time, the first paper on methadone has become a classic. Now you can download the original paper and enjoy its still relevant and surprising insights: Heroin Addiction: A Metabolic Disease. Archives of Internal Medicine, Vol. 120, July, 1967.
The list of events being organized for National Recovery Month continues to build. If you haven’t already done so, add to the 2006 calendar.
Please forward this newsletter to friends and colleagues who may be interested in addiction treatment and recovery issues. Send details on coming events, successful projects, new findings or useful ideas to share to mailto:sroff@pajournalism.com. If you missed past issues, visit the archive section at http://www.silenttreatment.info/enewsletters.htm. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to the same address, including the word “unsubscribe” in the subject line.
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