Did you know that marijuana and cigarettes may have the same effect on your heart? Now that marijuana is legal for recreational use, it seems as if the smell of it is everywhere, just as cigarette smoke was in […]

The Art/Media Contest Poster Winner Jahzara Blake Is A Sophomore At North Port High School

Jahzara Blake is the amazing High School Art/Media 2021 contest poster winner, hosted by ROR and sponsored by the […]

Spotlight on Art/Media Contest Runners’ Up

We are so proud of our ROR and Rotary Club of Sarasota Bay High School Art/Media contest runners up. Our two extraordinary winners for positive mental health […]

ROR is so proud to introduce the 1st Prize Winners of the 2021 ROR High School Art/Media Contest for teen mental health. Reach Out Recovery and Rotary Club of Sarasota Bay joined forces in the spring of 2021 to […]

FACEing Mental Illness, a podcast and article series by award-winning journalist Carrie Seidman, is my favorite way to learn about interesting people who have lived experience with mental illness. Did you know […]

Why should businesses be recovery friendly? Is your business recovery friendly? What about your family and friends? Are they sober and recovery friendly? September is National Recovery Month, but what more can we […]

My name is Leslie, and I’m a sober executive, CEO of Reach Out Recovery. I stopped drinking 13 years ago (August 25th is my sober date) to support my loved ones in recovery. It was the best thing I ever did. You […]

Recovery advocate and author Leslie Glass writes for Newsweek. “After a decade of writing articles and books on addiction and recovery for Reach Out Recovery, I am now honored to write about recovery and business […]

Is addiction and recovery messaging totally depressing you and making you crazy? Have you noticed how people’s eyes glaze over when you talk about it? I talk about addiction and recovery every day both for R […]

Myths about addiction continue to make recovery difficult. The names have changed, for one thing. You may not even know what you have when your diagnosis is OUD. The tragic fact is that in America addiction is […]

There is hope for addict’s moms
Did you know that addicts’ moms need hope that their loved ones can recover in the same way that moms of cancer patients need hope that their children can recover. How can we have […]

Counseling improves your life more ways than you can imagine. Just think about the arguments you have with loved ones. Are you bickering over the same things for years and don’t know how to stop? What about […]

How will a recovery store bring sparkle to you shopping? If you are one of the 23 million Americans in some form of recovery, like we are, you want some recovery products to both have some fun and keep your […]

Rotary healthy teens art/media competition launches unique addiction prevention initiative from Sarasota, Florida. By teens and for teens, this local project opens the door to teen voices for mental health […]