Citizens for Addiction Recovery and Education (C.A.R.E.)

Citizens for Addiction Recovery and Education (C.A.R.E.) We are here to educate and support those affected by alcoholism and addiction. Addicts/Alcoholics and their families and friends. Together we can change!

Citizens for Addiction, Recovery, and Education are focused on bringing education and awareness to our community, as well as communities across the United States, and to our neighbors around the world. We encourage those who wish to make a difference to like our page, speak out, and join our fight against alcoholism and addiction. We are making strides here in our own community as the opening of t

he first ever men’s residential treatment facility in Portage County of Ohio will be opening soon. If we can do it, you can too. We are here for those seeking support or information about addiction and alcoholism. All drugs are bad and are plaguing our communities. There are many people from different walks of life posting as Citizens for Addiction Recovery and Education; therefor Help is not far away. We also have many supporters who are willing to help with your questions. We welcome everyone that addiction and alcoholism has affected. That means the addict/alcoholic and the family and friends of the addict/alcoholic. It is up to us to help one another. Together we will make a difference!

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01/05/2022

Here’s a song I wrote describing anxiety. If you or anyone you know struggles with anxiety, you’re not alone. Let me know what you think. Reach out to someone. I’m always available. 3302810698

05/21/2017

I know I was powerless over drugs and alcohol but to understand that I was powerless over the way that I thought and acted was another challenge in its own. Alcohol and drugs caused many problems but it was my thinking that caused those problems. I drew back on the needle, picked up the bottle, chopped up the rail, and lit the joint all while being sober. Abstinance isn't enough. Living in the delusion that being sober is enough will ultimately leave a person in a position to where it will be out of their control to not pick up and send them on a Bender once again wondering all the while why it is happening and thinking at the same time that it is the substance never question or admitting that it could be their mind.

04/14/2017

PLEASE COMMENT IF YOU CAN COME
IMPORTANT MEETING :
April 19, 9:00 am. with the County Commisioners. Please check on the 7th floor for the exact room location.

Those that support the concept of our own treatment facility for addiction in Portage County are needed to attend this meeting.

Family Community Services is proposing a residential treatment center that will provide detox and step down residential services for approximately 70 people. They plan on accepting everyone regardless of ability to pay. Please support this proposal for some funding from the county.

It is our money. There is money available that other organizations are asking for. The jail already got what it needed from the sales tax hike that was implemented throughout our county. The remaining money was once said that it would more than likely go to addictions services for our county. The proposal for the treatment center makes more sense than all of the other proposals. The facility will be for men and women. We all need to be there. This has to be something they cannot turn down. We need to make them feel that way. The more people there. The more impact it will have. They are voting on where our money should go. We need to influence them to make the right choice. Please share this information. It's time to speak out. It's time to make something happen that will benefit our community. Who's with me. I will be there!!

Please share with others. We need an in county facility desperately!

Ohio CAN is updating their banner for this years Steps of Change as we remember and bring your voice to addiction and re...
02/18/2017

Ohio CAN is updating their banner for this years Steps of Change as we remember and bring your voice to addiction and recovery. If you have not included your loved one, please email to [email protected] or attach to this thread. We are asking for names, age and dates. Every life matters and we will never forget.

11/01/2016

Life is not about winning and losing. It's not about obtaining and not getting. It's about love and respect. We get in the way of love and happiness. We are too selfish to love each other because of what we want. We have to sacrifice everything for others out of love and expect absolutely nothing in return but another's happiness. Imagine Jesus giving His life for everyone. He did it out of love. And I think He did it just so we could be happy. He wanted to show us that no matter how bad it hurt to beat Him and nail Him on the cross He still loves us, that sacrifice is love, and that love and sacrifice are what spark a good, healthy, and loving relationship. That day on the cross, I believe Jesus (God) willingly went to suffer so that He could show us how to have a loving and respectful relationship. No matter how much it was going to hurt him He did what His father had asked Him. Not what He wanted to do. It wasn't about Him. It was about us and His Father's plan for Him. He served even though it was not in His human nature to. He did it because His Father asked Him to. I also think He did it because He wanted nothing more than to have a relationship with us. How can we not love Him after what He did for us. He gave the ultimate sacrifice. Out of love and a longing for a relationship with us, he gave His life. I need to set aside my schedule, plans, and wants to accommodate those who are closest to me and start sacrificing myself no matter how much it hurts me. In return I will be happy because bringing joy to those I love is what life is all about. Jesus proved this. Relationships are never ever about power but rather lack of power. We must become limited to serve putting selfish ambitions and motives aside and just let things and people be. It's okay that they do not act how we want them to act, it's okay that they don't meet expectations we shouldn't even set, and it's okay if things don't work out the way we want them to work out. If we truly love someone we love them right where they are. We let them change if they want to. If they don't want to we don't try to change them. We just love them more and realize if we are trying to change them we are only trying to fulfill something we desire. Love is selfless. We can't make love about ourselves. The only way to love ones self is to love another. For if we love to only please ourselves we are missing God. Gods love is the only way we can truly love ourselves because He teaches us that love is a relationship. A relationship with Him. We can only love ourselves properly by communicating with God. If we love and know Him, He fills us with His love. So love for ones self is God given obtained through a relationship with Him. It's not something we can give ourselves. It's not something we can acquire on our own. Love is given. It has to be given to us. And in order for us to keep it, we must give it away to all of Gods children all of the time. If not, we lose it and become hurt. Outside of Gods will is where we land. Apart from God. Lonely and sad. Until we talk to Him, ask Him for the strength and knowledge to love those that hurt us, and allow Him to fill the hole we selfishly put in another and ourselves. He fills us up so we know how to fill others. Truly, truly love your neighbor. That's how we show Hod we love Him. It's not the things we do. It's why we do the things that we do!!

10/15/2016

My name is Jeremy Taugner and I would like to reintroduce myself properly. You see, I am a real alcoholic and drug addict. Sometimes the disease in me will stop me from seeing that. For those of you who don't understand, drugs and alcohol are definitely not my problem. They are simply the solution to my problem. Because when I pick up a drink or a drug I choose to do so while sober knowing that the outcome will not be good! After 5 and 1/2 years sober I made a decision to take prescription medication to relieve myself from my pain. If I must be honest, it was not the pain from the surgical procedure I went through that I was trying to resolve but rather the pain from a mental and spiritual condition that I have that lies to me and wants to take me out. When my disease is left untreated the end result will be for me to seek out anything except for the real solution that will bring me a sense of ease and comfort. For a guy like me who is a real alcoholic and drug addict the only solution is for a power greater than myself to keep me sober. I call that power God. When I stop seeking that power my disease starts seeking me. When my disease starts seeking me, I start seeking solutions. I want to feel good or not feel at all. The only way for me to feel good from my experience is to work a program of recovery. So my disease of addiction and alcoholism is a disease that will lie to me. Like it's okay as long as I take the medication as prescribed. As long as I do that everything will be okay. That's the biggest lie that I have ever told myself and believed and it almost took me out of this world. My life now is committed to show people the power of God. Not the power of Jeremy. I have no power within my human self to stay sober. I have no power within my selfish self centered being to be of any help to anyone unless I follow the leader. I didn't fully understand the disease aspect of this illness until the quality of my sobriety or should I say lack of, almost left my wife husbandless and my children fatherless. This disease will never go away but it is definitely my choice to take the proper actions to treat it. Life will still happen but my God is bigger than life and I will do my best to make the decision to seek Him for as long as I shall live. I can't be ashamed of this. Too many people are and we are losing a lot of them. There is a real solution and it's not a substance. I thank God that He has given me another opportunity to be a part of it. . . !!

10/11/2016

Alcoholism is like me trying to take a plate of food to a bear. I just want to feed the bear realizing what the bear is capable of but at the same time not even considering what that bear is capable of. I've seen the nature channel. Anyway, So I take the plate of food to the bear and the bear eats me and leaves the plate of food. My intentions were to just feed the bear and the bears intentions were to to eat me and save the plate of food for the next guy stupid enough to feed the bear. Don't feed the bear. Don't even come close to the bear. Words of of wisdom. ~Jeremy Taugner~

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change. The courage to change the things I can. The wisdom to know ...
10/06/2016

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change. The courage to change the things I can. The wisdom to know the difference.

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