Many have observed the power of a story of personal recovery from substance use disorder, but it can be difficult for organizations to justify funding and partnership opportunities without credible analytics and metrics. The Recovery Data Platform (RDP), a cloud-based software solution developed by Faces and Voices of Recovery and RecoveryTrek, accumulates, processes and generates useful reports that simplify the process for stakeholders. ---------------------- NORFOLK, VA. (

Written by Sandra J. Pennecke Photo by Eric Lushner March 26, 2018 Helping people get back to work From a spare room in his home in 2011, Kirk Cizerle started what has become a national substance-use tracking firm that employs a team of 25 and works with more than 100 monitoring programs and treatment centers across the country and overseas. RecoveryTrek, now located in the Wells Fargo building in Norfolk, gets its name from the fact that drug and alcohol addiction is a lifel

By Kelly Burch, 02/12/18 [the fix .com] The senator wants to bring multiple federal agencies together to crack down on fraud and patient brokering occurring in the state's sober home industry. Florida Senator and former Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio has asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to look into sober homes and rehabs in Florida that are "bad actors” with shady practices that have led to overdose deaths. Rubio urged Sessions, “to the fullest extent poss

"...It's called the Human Intervention Motivation Study, or HIMS. And before you panic, consider this: it may be one of the most successful rehab programs ever. Eighty percent of pilots who enter the program do not relapse at all. And of those that do relapse, most relapse only once."...  [CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE] ------------------------- [CURATED CONTENT: CBS News Interactive, December 10, 2017 - originally published on cbsnews . com] #ProfessionalMonitoring

Written by Dennis Beaver, attorney and syndicated columnist. Published with author's permission. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *NOTE: Since the date of this publication RecoveryTrek changed the name of it's Continuing Care program from "CareTrek" to "MyRecoveryTrek". References to this program may be found in the final section of this article entitled "For the rest of us, wh