From Homelessness To Clean & Sober Living NICE STORY – Nov. 12, 2025 - Selina Baylis, 44, said she is now the woman she was always meant to be. Describing herself as having been an alcoholic since her teens, Selina is now living in her own flat and plans to ... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediahomelessNov 18 2025RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
Nonprofits Profit On Homeless While the Crisis Deepens AUDIO – NOT SO POOR ANYMORE – Oct. 14, 2025 - In Los Angeles, much of the work is carried out not just by government agencies, but largely by a vast network of nonprofits funded with public money. Over the past de... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and Mediahomelessnonprofit organizationOct 21 2025
How Albuquerque Woman Turned Her Life Around VIDEO – BETTER DAYS NOW – Sept. 13, 2025 - Drug addiction is one of the biggest challenges faced by many individuals living on the streets. However, one woman is sharing her story of overcoming her struggles an... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediahomelessOct 14 2025
Los Angeles Organizations Are Adapting to Save Lives VIDEO – ANGELS IN THE FLESH – Sept. 1, 2025 - At the newly opened Skid Row Care Campus, harm reduction is at the forefront of helping those experiencing homelessness and struggling with addiction. Most of the people ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediahomelessRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 09 2025
Trump Executive’s Order to House The Homeless OR ELSE? – July 24, 2025 Trump instructed federal agencies to determine methods to forcibly put homeless people dealing with mental illness or drug addiction into treatment centers for longer periods, while gut... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAug 05 2025Books, Memoirs, Films, and Mediahomeless
‘I’m just trying to do good’ AND HE’S SUCCEEDING – July 22, 2025 - J.R. Montgomery strives to help those struggling with homelessness and substance use disorder. Studies show that peer support improves outcomes for those being helped, as well as... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAug 05 2025Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionhomelessRecoveryRehab
45 People Who Had To Run Away From Home And Why SAD BUT TRUE – July 25, 2025 - By definition, home is a haven where we generally feel safe. It’s a place of warmth and solace. That’s not the case for many people. For them, home is an awful setting where most of ... Read More...Aug 05 2025Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediahomelessTrauma
Documentary on Homelessness Crisis Debuts at REEL Recovery Film Festival MOVIES MATTER – June 6, 2025 - “InhuMAINE,” created by Rogan O’Donnell, was filmed almost entirely in Bangor and attempts to capture why the region has struggled with growing homelessness in the wake of the pandemic.... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediahomelessJune 10 2025Mental HealthREEL Recovery Film Festival
Daughter Finds Mother Dead: Was it an Overdose? HEARTBREAKING – May 27, 2025 - The daughters of a U.S. Army veteran whose body was found in a homeless encampment are raising concerns about the LA Police Department’s handling of their mother’s case. Lucrecia Macias... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionhomelessJune 03 2025Overdose
Nikki Hayes: From Radio to Arrest and Living on the Street DOING THE RIGHT THING – May 25, 2025 - Ms. Hayes went onto lose her job, her home, and contact with most of her friends and family before her sister convinced her to seek help. Now sober for eighteen months and one w... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyhomelessJune 03 2025RecoveryRehab
Brother’s Struggles Inspire Woman to Help Addicted Homeless GOD BLESS HER – May 27, 2025 - Equipped with clothing, food and medical supplies, Lisa Lipyanic of Wind Gap tries to help people who live on the streets like her brother had been doing for many years. Randy Lipyanic ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionhomelessJune 03 2025
Law Student Graduates Top of Class After Being Homeless YES YOUR HONOR – May 5, 2025 - Lisa Mertz began using alcohol and marijuana in the eighth grade. By the time the suburban Cincinnati woman started the journey to sobriety in 2015, she’d progressed to painkillers and ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediahomelessMay 13 2025
Helping the Homeless with Substance Abuse WITH GOD ON THEIR SIDE – April 24, 2025 - The place I call Deliverance Alley is a vacant lot of grass and dirt in a neglected south Dallas neighborhood. Drive by and you won’t see much. A sign on a deli across ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApr 29 2025Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionhomeless
Café Offers Job Training To Homeless VIDEO – FEEL GOOD – March 26, 2025 - We’d like to introduce you to Change Please Coffee, a local coffee shop that is doing good in the community by helping people get back on their feet. They are a social enterprise ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryApr 01 2025Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and Addictionhomeless
Meth Rampant For California’s Homeless: Treatment Elusive SOCIETY’S CHILD – March 13, 2025 - The mean age of the homeless people who participated in the survey was 46. Thirty-seven percent reported regular drug use in the prior six months. A quarter of the homeless pe... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionhomelessMar 25 2025meth
Homeless Say Cost of Addiction Forcing Them Into Modern Slavery IT’S ROUGH OUT THERE – Feb. 28, 2025 - Patrick is 32 years old and has been homeless on and off in Edinburgh since growing up in care. He speaks with a rasping quality due to the ravages of sleeping outdoors in... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionhomelessMar 04 2025
Tiny Homes Designed to Promote Sobriety for Homeless Residents BUILD MORE! – Feb. 13, 2025 - Named Recovery Gateway, it consists of 42 single-occupancy homes and four double-occupancy homes for couples, for a total of 46 available units for 50 people. Residents will be wel... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionFeb 18 2025homelessRecoveryRecovery Advocatesobriety
Woman Offers Lifeline To Those on Streets, Like She Once Needed VIDEO – BEEN THERE, DONE THAT – Jan. 10, 2025 - CaraMia Bacchiochi founded Hope On A Mission after overcoming her own struggles with homelessness and addiction. A passion project for her, Hope On A Mission has been ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionhomelessJanuary 14 2025
Make Hard-Drug Possession a Felony to Convince Homeless Addicts to Get Clean – by Marcia Kelbon THEN WHAT? – Dec. 25, 2024 - As many of us prepare to enjoy the holidays in our snug homes, let’s pause to remember those without such amenities. And to review the approaches we have been taking to reduce the p... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 31 2024Drug Abuse and Addictionhomeless
Homeless Man Gets 5 Years in Prison for $30 Drug Delivery INJUSTICE ANYONE? – Dec. 12, 2024 - For $30, Kaream Moore pedaled his bicycle at the request of a man he had not previously met to deliver a baggie containing 40 grams of fentanyl. The price for the homeless man, who... Read More...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 17 2024Drug Abuse and Addictionhomeless
Momma Overcoming Addiction and Homelessness SAVE THE CHILDREN – Nov. 20, 2024 - Harlow Babbitt looks over her shoulder at her mother as she waits patiently for lunch. Nichole Babbitt fixes her daughter Harper Babbitt’s hair while her other daughter Harlow Babb... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionhomelessNov 26 2024Recovery
New Plans For The Mentally Ill, Addicts and Homeless Americans NPR AUDIO – USA USA USA – Nov. 12, 2024 - In a short video on his campaign website, Trump says cities in the U.S. have been surrendered to people who are unhoused, drug addicted and, quote, “dangerously derange... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionhomelessNov 19 2024
Under an L.A. Freeway: A Psychiatric Rescue Mission SO MANY SICK PEOPLE – Oct. 22, 2024 - In a downtown Los Angeles parking lot, a stretch of asphalt tucked between gleaming hotels and the 110 freeway, a psychiatrist named Shayan Rab was seeing his third patient of th... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionhomelessOct 29 2024
‘I cried daily for months but the bike helped me’ VIDEO – TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED – Oct. 7, 2024 - Homelessness, alcoholism and a nervous breakdown are just some of the challenges a Stoke-on-Trent cyclist has had to overcome. Phil James’s next challenge is to cy... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediahomelessOct 15 2024
Woman Overcame Homelessness and Addiction, ‘You Mean Something to Someone’ AUDIO – PATIENCE AND COMPASSION – Sept. 12, 2024 - “My parents, my sister, my kids — they didn’t want anything to do with me,” she remembered. As her family withdrew, Hernandez-Coleman’s life unraveled. At 59, she fo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionhomelessinterventionInterviewRecoveryRehabSept 24 2024
Housing First – Sober Living Next STREET LIFE SUCKS – July 14, 2024 - Every reasonable person agrees that addiction is a prevalent challenge among the homeless population, whether they base that judgment on scientific research or on the experi... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictionhomelessJuly 23 2024
The Soul Survivors Sober Home WE ARE FAMILY – July 16, 2024 - Soul Survivors Living Foundation is a home for veterans, the homeless, and those fighting addictions, turning women who are struggling into women who are survivors. “I realized ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionhomelessJuly 23 2024RecoveryRehab
Sobriety Advocate & Herbalist Overcomes Homelessness SUPPORT SOBER ENTREPRENEURS – July 13, 2024 - Valerie Wiener is following her dream by choosing a healing path as an herbalist. Also known as Mother Wanderer Earth Medicine, the mother of two says, “I’m a huge... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediahomelessinterventionInterviewJuly 23 2024Recovery Advocate
‘LA’s Crack House’ for the Homeless VIDEO – COPING – July 10, 2024 - Every day, dozens of people line up outside the nonprofit Homeless Healthcare Los Angeles to pick up crack pipes and other drug paraphernalia, then, they light up right there ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionhomelessJuly 16 2024
10 Left Homeless and 2 Pets dead after Sober Home Destroyed By Fire THANK GOD NO ONE DIED – June 7, 2024 - A fire at a sober living home in Fresno has made 10 people homeless after flames ripped through the Fresno building on Thursday. A recently posted GoFundMe online fund... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediahomelessJune 25 2024RecoveryRehab