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Culturally-informed care is at the core of the White Buffalo Recovery Center, an outpatient addiction treatment facility in Riverton and on the Wind River Reservation. We take an inside look into how they’re helping tribal members heal, as well as a new program they’re launching this June, which aims to address grief and intergenerational trauma for families.
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The White Buffalo Recovery Center is a culturally-informed outpatient treatment center that supports Native community members who are recovering from addiction and substance abuse. This June, they’re launching a new version of Mending Broken Hearts, a bimonthly, three-day workshop that provides healing around grief, loss and intergenerational trauma. In the past, the program has been just for adults, but now the workshop is expanding to include the whole family.
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A newly-purchased ranch aims to support Eastern Shoshone community members recovering from addictionPeople recovering from addiction can sometimes have to wait for weeks or months to get into a residential treatment facility to get the help they need. Those shortages are especially felt in tribal communities in rural states like Wyoming and Montana – and last summer, inadequate treatment centers in Arizona made headlines for conducting a widespread Medicaid fraud scheme targeting Native Americans. But, a ten-acre ranch recently purchased by the Eastern Shoshone Business Council will help make that transition a little easier for tribal members.
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The county was chosen by the state to launch a pilot program in the hope that it can eventually be implemented in other counties, reduce recidivism, and create productive members of society.
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Fentanyl is a large contributor to the opioid crisis. Fentanyl-related deaths in Wyoming have been on the rise since 2015, with 106 overdose deaths in 2021.
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New research in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that teens haven't used more illegal drugs over the last decade. However, they are dying from drug overdoses at twice the rate.
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University of Wyoming researchers are trying to model the brain when it is exposed to drugs.In a recent publication, Ana Clara Bobadilla, a UW Assistant…
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Christine Semrow survived addiction by moving to Jackson and immersing herself in the wilderness.When StoryCorps came to Jackson last year, Semrow sat…
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Healthcare providers in Laramie say they’re seeing an increase in addiction. In response, the Albany Community Health Clinic -- which serves patients…
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Albany County Sheriff Dave O’Malley said in his first 30 years in law enforcement he encountered heroin only twice, but now illicit drugs -- including…