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Wearing a Mask is required inside meetings and common space. Beverages brought in is acceptable; Please put mask back on immediately. No temperature taking or signatures required. Seeking: Volunteers! Join us in Building Safety, Fundraisers, Events, Building Opening and Closing. Contact Jihad El-Amin at 518-429-5034. “Give back and Keep your center safe!”

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Benita Zahn - May 17, 2021 The pandemic has been difficult for many, including those in recovery. In fact, 81,003 people died from drug overdoses in the 12-month period ending last June. That's a 20% increase and the highest number of fatal overdoses ever recorded in the United States in a single year. Read more

Dearest Parent, Please notice where your fear takes you. You have me dead already waiting for that call. You see images of me dead. But I'm not there. Even if my physical body has passed or if I'm homeless and can't be reached, break free of your fear and imaginations. Please remember my goodness and my life. I live elsewhere, and always in your heart. Look for me there. Look for me in the good, in the living. Look for me and honor me with your life. I can not do this for you. Please tell me you love me, and what you're willing to tolerate, or not. I eventually hear you say no. And just repeat it or don't answer the phone. This is helping me. When you repeat what's not working for either of us, it just keeps not working. Just be clear with your love and your boundaries. I need this. It helps me with my own fear, and helps you take care of your own. I can not do this for you. I actually want your love. I want you to love me as I am whether I live or die. Trying to fix me is beyond your control and obsessing on this will kill your chance at any peace. It's your fear that makes you do that. And you make me responsible for it. I'm under the influence of drugs. Drugs have their way. You must choose a different way when I can not. I love you and I can not express it right now. Just trust in that love, even though it's silent and difficult to see. Please remove this pressure from me that I have to get fixed and take care of your happiness. I really can not handle it. Please seek your own recovery. I can not do this for you. Live your life so I don't have to feel the shame of taking it from you. I did not take your life from you. I don't have that power. So please don't give it to me, or to drugs for that matter. I don't want that for you either. God gave me a life and a death, same for you. If and when I can choose differently, I will. Will you? Show me the way. If I ever recover, I'll need you to be clear and strong. Healing is possible for me, and for you. You be the one. I can't do this for you either, and please please don't wait for me. God has plans for me, and God has plans for you. Staying in pain is not His plan for you. I know it's not God's plan to have me addicted but God is going to use my life in ways we both can not imagine. Find every way to live and inspire peace and joy in this life. I can not do this for you. I know you love me very much. I love you back. Nothing can destroy that. I will be with you always. God created me as love, and you are too. It is indestructible. Remember this and you will remember me well. And this love can break through your fears. Know I love you even when it doesn't look or sound like that. Know this, but I can't do this for you. Forever, Your Child, and God's.

To All who previously used CDRC as a place for your meeting and haven’t returned yet due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve missed you! As I have spoken to many of you, we, at CDRC, understand and respect the reluctance and special circumstances that have kept you from re-starting in person meetings. As we are getting closer to the approval of several promising vaccines, I thought I would let you know that we are taking requests for meeting spaces to help you secure the time and date you will meet in the future. We will happily hold that space for a nominal monthly fee until you and your fellowship determine the appropriate time to return. We have made health and safety our top priority for all those who utilize our meeting space. We have instituted the NY Forward Safety Plan, Disinfecting & Cleaning, Social Distancing, Masking, Screening, Tracking and Traffic Flow protocols required by the State of New York a part of our daily operation. Many meetings have already begun to meet in person, as their Group Conscious has led them. In that time, we have operated safely and without incident. To those of you who are looking for a new meeting place or have been displaced due to the pandemic, we would love to hear from you and secure a meeting space for you as well! Friends, there is “A Light at The End of The Tunnel” for CDRC and all of us. Our mission at CDRC is fueled and filled with Hope. You will see it too and know that we will be waiting for you at the other end! Warm Regards, Mark Kaplan President, CDRC

Over the past nine years, attention has grown for a special day set aside for something altruistic: charitable donations. Started nine years ago, Giving Tuesday was conceived as a way "to create a national day of giving at the start of the annual holiday season." And since its founding, Giving Tuesday has inspired charitable giving resulting in greater donations, volunteer hours, and activities that bring about real change in communities. Whether or not you donate, you can spread the word about Giving Tuesday via social media by including the #GivingTuesday hash tag. DONATE to CDRC

Marijuana Anonymous is a fellowship of people who share our experience, strength, and hope with each other that we may solve our common problem and help others to recover from marijuana addiction. Meetings are a vital part of the MA program. This is where fellowship members go for support, for literature, and mark and celebrate their abstinence from marijuana. There are regularly scheduled (typically weekly) in-person meetings[6] across the globe, as well as online and phone meetings. Those with a desire to quit marijuana use may also participate in an online discussion forum.

Would you rather eat only turkey or mashed potatoes for a year? Would you rather celebrate Thanksgiving on the Moon or on Mars? Would you rather say thanks or be thanked? Would you rather give or receive? Would you rather drink a gravy milkshake or eat a cranberry pizza? Would you rather eat mashed potatoes with your hands or wear a turkey costume in public? Would you rather make a gobbling noise every time you sneeze or cry gravy tears?

Find out by using this checklist from NA.org https://www.na.org/admin/include/spaw2/uploads/pdf/litfiles/us_english/IP/EN3107.pdf

On 9/17/2020, former Boston Celtic Chris Herren talked with CDRC Board of Directors president, Mark Kaplan about his recovery journey, and how COVID-19 is affecting our collective experience and mental well-being. Here is Chris's story

Read more https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33932358-recovery A guide to all kinds of addiction from a star who has struggled with heroin, alcohol, sex, fame, food, and eBay, that will help addicts and their loved ones make the first steps into recovery. "This manual for self-realization comes not from a mountain but from the mud.... My qualification is not that I am better than you but I am worse." (Russell Brand) With a rare mix of honesty, humor, and compassion, comedian and movie star Russell Brand mines his own wild story and shares the advice and wisdom he has gained through his 14 years of recovery. Brand speaks to those suffering along the full spectrum of addiction - from drugs, alcohol, caffeine, and sugar addictions to addictions to work, stress, bad relationships, digital media, and fame. Brand understands that addiction can take many shapes and sizes and how the process of staying clean, sane, and unhooked is a daily activity. He believes that the question is not "why are you addicted?" but "what pain is your addiction masking? Why are you running - into the wrong job, the wrong life, the wrong person's arms?" Russell has been in all the 12-step fellowships going, he's started his own men's group, he's a therapy regular and a practiced yogi - and while he's worked on this material as part of his comedy and previous best sellers, he's never before shared the tools that really took him out of it, that keep him clean and clear. Here he provides not only a recovery plan but an attempt to make sense of the ailing world.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovering addict, a rare page-turning work of science that draws on personal insights to reveal how drugs work, the dangerous hold they can take on the brain, and the surprising way to combat today's epidemic of addiction. Read more about/get the book at GoodReads Judith Grisel was a daily drug user and college dropout when she began to consider that her addiction might have a cure, one that she herself could perhaps discover by studying the brain. Now, after twenty-five years as a neuroscientist, she shares what she and other scientists have learned about addiction, enriched by captivating glimpses of her personal journey. In Never Enough, Grisel reveals the unfortunate bottom line of all regular drug use: there is no such thing as a free lunch. All drugs act on the brain in a way that diminishes their enjoyable effects and creates unpleasant ones with repeated use. Yet they have their appeal, and Grisel draws on anecdotes both comic and tragic from her own days of using as she limns the science behind the love of various drugs, from marijuana to alcohol, opiates to psychedelics, speed to spice. With more than one in five people over the age of fourteen addicted, drug abuse has been called the most formidable health problem worldwide, and Grisel delves with compassion into the science of this scourge. She points to what is different about the brains of addicts even before they first pick up a drink or drug, highlights the changes that take place in the brain and behavior as a result of chronic using, and shares the surprising hidden gifts of personality that addiction can expose. She describes what drove her to addiction, what helped her recover, and her belief that a “cure” for addiction will not be found in our individual brains but in the way we interact with our communities. Set apart by its color, candor, and bell-clear writing, Never Enough is a revelatory look at the roles drugs play in all of our lives and offers crucial new insight into how we can solve the epidemic of abuse.