Rich Jones' Recovery Cartel

07/07/2025

AVE is tough….

27/06/2025

AWARENESS DAY

16/06/2025

Check it out. Male is real.

12/01/2025

Next episode ….Trip to coming up. ***deprevention

01/11/2024

✌️the Road Show continues. Tuesday in Maine for an excellent event. “Wellbeing for ME”.

A group of outstanding speakers and informative panelists exploring the importance of mental health and wellness programs. Very interesting to hear about different approaches and models of care.

More importantly. This event was a HOPE SHOT. There are many people working really hard to end this epidemic of ***de and in the industry.

Many folks worked hard to put this together and this event was unique in my opinion. I think the diversity in opinions and perspectives was important. Maine has some cool stuff happening and it was awesome to participate.

Associated General Contractors of Maine Kelly Flagg Maria Fuentes Maine Better Transportation Association Sargent Lisa Nakamura Turner Construction Company CIANBRO ARISE ADDICTION RECOVERY INC NAMI Maine Youturn Health SaVida Health Wellness Workdays MaineWorks ***deprevention

23/09/2024

*** Random observations.

I have worked in many different settings in behavioral health field. As you know, this is the type of industry where "1 job" doesn't necessarily equal financial security. Over the years, I've worked in nearly every role-from entry level "behavioral tech" to c-level executive.

Always working 2 or 3 jobs at a time.

One of the hardest jobs, in my humble opinion, is executive director of a Recovery Community Organization/Recovery Community Center (RCO).

Part fundraiser, part operations director, and part chief executive officer this position is burnout city.

In an environment where everything is uncertain and no one is sure "how to get paid".

The other odd development, there are many "experts" providing guidance in this space that have never actually run a recovery center.

If you have never started, launched, and sustained a recovery center...

How can you teach someone else to do it?

15/09/2024

✌️✌️Aidan’s bike helmet is covered in Insulators Union stickers. I bring these back from the trainings I do with the insulators union. He’s a big fan! I didn’t know he was collecting these stickers. They are pretty cool.

Aidan is very concerned about in the construction/trades space.

For real. He pays attention to this stuff and wants to know what I’m doing on these business trips. I tell him about the numbers.

He doesn’t understand why we aren’t “doing more to help those people”.

Well Aidan …. It’s a long story. But rest assured. We are trying.


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15/09/2024

Excellent article. is a legit issue. Compulsion to “keep working”. 6 principles can help.

✅Redefining “urgent”

✅Reinventing the to-do list

✅Learning to say “no” and delegate

✅Fixing the workaholic clock

✅Controlling rumination

✅Embracing rest and recovery

https://lnkd.in/empj-Brd

***deprevention Youturn Health

https://hbr.org/2024/09/a-workaholics-guide-to-reclaiming-your-life

Workaholism is when work dominates your thoughts and your activities, to the detriment of other aspects of your life, including but not limited to your relationships and your health. In this article, Malissa Clark presents depictions of workaholism and equips readers with six coping strategies to br...

06/09/2024

🙏Tonight was a win for . NIMBY on steroids going on at the Bolivar borough council meeting. However. Recovery came up big tonight!

Bolivar, Pennsylvania is a small town with an amazing RECOVERY COMMUNITY CENTER (FAVOR ~ Western PA A Recovery Community Organization).

It is a very rural area with little to no resources. FAVOR serves people who otherwise have no shot at recovery. 70% of their work is with .

Kim Botteicher and her team are unbelievably hard working and effective.

I won’t go into details. Because it’s very disturbing stuff and I don’t want to make false reports. But members of the Bolivar community have been actively and viscously attacking Kim and her business and the RECOVERY CENTER.

But tonight…. Was a hope shot.

The Borough publicly expressed their support for the center. And the recovery community showed up in force.

It’s still a steep mountain to climb. Vindictive petty people exist in all communities. And this is probably not the end of the harassment.

But a big step in the right direction 😎

Youturn Health

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03/09/2024

✌️✌️✌️My kids (Aidan is 11 and Andrew is 15) came with me on this trip to the state capital. They are definitely impacted by these events. If the goal is to raise awareness… I can say, from my perspective, these events work. My kids, for example, are definitely impacted. In a positive way.

They have a bunch of questions. Aidan wants to know why the “people in charge don’t just listen to you Dad”? Well son…. That’s a long and complex story. Pull up a chair….

International Overdose Awareness Day. IOAD.

Youturn Health

***deprevention

02/09/2024

Aidan Jones and Andrew Jones came with me on this trip to the state capital. To raise awareness. International Overdose Awareness Day. IOAD. Youturn Health.

26/08/2024

I had the opportunity to speak at this year’s overdose candlelight vigil.

I haven’t been able to attend these events over the past couple years. I just couldn’t take the pain. I was in the middle of some family stuff that left me extremely vulnerable to such heavy duty stuff. I think I would have fallen apart...quite literally.

But I’m back.

This is not “just another recovery rally”. These people lost someone, to a PREVENTABLE death. And these rallies are both a memorial and a CRY for help. Because the status quo, let’s keep doing the same old s**t, isn’t going to cut it.

Let’s hope those in positions of influence and power can put families first. Rather than focus on retention of power and maintenance of the status quo.

If you think what we are doing is “working”.... attend a overdose vigil and witness the pain. These people are the most amazing, strong, faithful people you can find. But they know their loved one’s were failed. They are angry and hurt.

And we never talk about the elephant in the room.

The bottom line is we have a system that works for the “willing” client but basically ignores the rest of those in need. And the facts are, 94% of people in need are NOT WILLING to come to your clinic, or your rehab, or even your local AA meeting. These stats are available at SAMSHA via their annual Household Survey on Drug Use and Health. Only 6% of people in need get help.

Try some new stuff. There are many ideas out there. Some I’ve heard include: (see comments)