Recovery Month
National Recovery Month is a national observance held every September to educate Americans that substance use treatment and mental health services work and promote healthy and rewarding lifestyles.
The 2021 National Recovery Month theme, “Recovery is for Everyone,” reminds people no one is alone in their journey. While every journey may look different, we are all in this together. Recovery Month gives us time to reflect and be intentional with our actions. We seek to educate others about substance use disorders and co-occurring disorders, the effectiveness of treatment and recovery services, and that recovery is possible. The Office of Recovery Services believes that strength, support, and hope, promotes resiliency. The City of Boston is here to assist you.
Please join us and our community partners as we celebrate recovery, and deepen our understanding of substance use disorder. To participate in any of the events, please check out our Recovery Month calendar below.
Featured events- Virtual Recovery Storytelling on September 13 with Meghann Perry
- Author talk with Patrick Radden Keefe on September 19
- Recovery Month celebration on City Hall Plaza on September 28, hosted by MOAR
- International Recovery Day on September 30
Author Talk
Author Talk-
National Recovery Month: Author talk with Patrick Radden Keefe
Sep 19
- When September 19, 2021, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
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Where
Old South Church in Boston, Main Sanctuary
645 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
United States -
Contact
Thomas Johnston
- Email thomas.johnston@boston.gov
- Phone
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Price
FREE
2021 Recovery Month Reading Recommendations
Reading Recommendations- "Chasing the Scream", Johann Hari
- "Empire of Pain", Patrick Radden Keefe
- "If You Love Me", Maureen Kavanaugh
- "Recovery Rising", William White
- "Righteous Dopefiend", Jeff Schonberg
- "The Least of Us", Sam Quinones
- "The Thirteenth Step", Markus Heilig
- "Undoing Drugs", Maia Szalavitz
- "Sonny’s Blues", James Baldwin
- "Wild", Cheryl Strayed
- "Basketball Junkie: A Memoir", Bill Reynolds and Chris Herren
- "Beautiful Boy", David Sheff
- "Drink", Ann Dowsett Johnston
- "Dry", Augusten Burroughs
- "Pain Killer", Brantt Myhres
- "Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood", by Koren Zailckas
- "The Recovering", Leslie Jamison
- "Water by the Spoonful", Quiara Alegría Hudes
- "boy/girl/ghost", Torrin Greathouse
- "Drunks and Other Poems of Recovery", Jack McCarthy
- "I Know Your Kind", William Brewer
- "Parse", Ruth Bauman
- "Pilgrim Bell", Kaveh Akbar
- "The Twenty-Ninth Year", Hala Alyan
- "The Only Worlds We Know", Michael Lee
- "Alcoholics Anonymous", Bill Wilson
- "Drop the Rock", Bill P. et al
- "Narcotics Anonymous"
- "Refuge Recovery", Noah Levine
- "Unsubscribe", Josh Korda
- "When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times", Pema Chödrön
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"The Illustrated Easy Way to Stop Smoking", Allen Carr, 2017.
- "(Don't) Call Me Crazy", Kelly Jensen
- "Dreamland: YA Edition", Sam Quinones
- "In the Air", New England PTTC
- "Hey Kiddo", Jarrett J. Krosoczka
- "Heroine", Mindy McGinnis
