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		Celebrate Recovery Street Festival September 23rd, Galveston, TX.   Christina Webb and Sidney Bailey from the Stark Diabetes Center participated in the September 2006 Celebrate Recovery Street Festival in Galveston by providing free cholesterol and glucose screenings. The Stark Diabetes Center also gave away 4 all inclusive tickets to Moody Gardens during the event. The Celebrate Recovery Street Festival was coordinated by the UTMB Center for Addiction Research and the Gulf Coast Center Recovery Program. The event was a resounding success. with 400 – 500 hundred attendees, including many families, celebrating the recovery from drugs, and/or alcohol abuse or addiction. What Is Recovery Month? Recovery Month is an annual observance that takes place during the month of September. The Recovery Month observance highlights the societal benefits of substance abuse treatment, lauds the contributions of treatment providers and promotes the message that recovery from substance abuse in all its forms is possible. The observance also encourages citizens to take action to help expand and improve the availability of effective substance abuse treatment for those in need. Recovery Month also serves to educate the public on substance abuse as a national health crisis, that addiction is a treatable disease, and that recovery is possible. Recovery Month highlights the benefits of treatment for not only the affected individual, but for their family, friends, workplace, and society as a whole. Educating the public reduces the stigma associated with addiction and treatment. Accurate knowledge of the disease helps people to understand the importance of supporting treatment programs, those who work within the treatment field, and those in need of treatment. (Adapted from National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month Web site).
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