Friday, August 28, 2015

NEW! Run for Your Life auction


Stop by the sponsor tent at Run for Your Life on September 19th for a chance to win some great prizes! We'll be auctioning off gift certificates to New York's hottest restaurants and more. Here's a peek at some of the items you'll be able to bid on:
  • $100 gift certificate to Kilo, a hip neighborhood wine and tapas bar in Hell's Kitchen
  • $200 gift certificate to Trading Posta classic American restaurant and bar, nestled into a gorgeous cobblestone corner of the Financial District
  • $75 gift certificate to Republic in Union Square, to get your noodle fix
  • Dinner for 2 at Acqua, a rustic Italian restaurant in the historic South Street Seaport (valued at $200)
  • $150 gift certificate to The Gander, a New American restaurant by one of NYC's "more inventive young chefs," Jesse Schenker
  • $150 gift certificate to MarkJoseph Steakhouse, a "classic unbuttoned steakhouse" in the South Street Seaport
  • Dinner for 2 at Scarpetta, a New York Times Critics' Pick serving Italian food that is "at once refined and soulful" (valued at $250)
We'll be adding more items as we get closer to the race, so check back regularly. The only way to win is to be there, so join us at Run for Your Life on September 19th to celebrate recovery. Register today!

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Our Summer 2015 newsletter is now available!


The Summer 2015 edition of Odyssey House News is now available online. Read about our renovated medical clinic, latest art show, new services and more. Check it out and let us know what you think in the comments or on our Facebook wall. Click here to read it (pdf). If you'd like to receive a copy in the mail, please email your contact information to info(at)odysseyhouseinc.org.


And don't forget to join us on September 19th for our 10th Annual Run for Your Life celebration!

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

"Housing & recovery are joined at the hip"

In today's edition of The New York Times, Odyssey House President Dr. Peter Provet comments on a recent article examining New York City's response to an earlier investigative report (A Choice for Recovering Addicts: Relapse or Homelessness, May 30, 2015) on the deplorable conditions of three-quarter homes. 

NYT masthead 
Housing for Addicts

To the Editor:
Your investigative report on "three-quarter" homes (front page, Aug. 3) exposes flaws in a system that places vulnerable people with substance abuse and/or mental disorders in living situations with providers who at best do nothing to support their recovery, and at worst propel them toward drug use and chaos through crowded, substandard living conditions.

It is troubling to all of us who provide treatment services that people who leave our programs with the tools to live sober and independent lives are just one bad placement away from falling back into addiction. But the fact is that housing and recovery are joined at the hip.

Within long-term recovery, however, stable housing is necessary but not sufficient. Quality outpatient and recovery services are essential to maintaining successes achieved in what can otherwise devolve into a chronic relapsing disorder. That some corrupt providers may exist should not obscure the fact that hundreds of others offer critical community-based services that allow thousands in recovery to flourish.

PETER PROVET
President and Chief Executive
New York, April 3, 2014