{"id":768406,"date":"2026-06-29T07:59:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T07:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/768406\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T07:59:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T07:59:19","slug":"carbonear-recovery-centre-director-warns-of-rising-severity-in-addictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/768406\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbonear Recovery Centre Director Warns of Rising Severity in Addictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/u-turn-drop-in-centre-carbonear.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Carbonear Recovery Centre Director Warns of Rising Severity in Addictions\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(via U-Turn Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>The executive director of the U-Turn Addiction Recovery Drop-In Centre in Carbonear says he has seen a big change in the severity of addictions that people are dealing with over the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>The centre, which first opened 15 years ago as a volunteer initiative, has since grown into a resource that offers various supports and referrals.<\/p>\n<p>Executive director Jeff Bourne says the types of drugs that people are using and the effects of those substances on people have evolved.<\/p>\n<p>He has\u00a0seen the effect it is having on people\u00a0living with addiction.<\/p>\n<p>He says years ago when people came in looking for help, he could tell they had a problem. Now,\u201dthey\u2019re totally emotionally, mentally, and spiritually bankrupt\u201d and are often sick both mentally and physically.<\/p>\n<p>Bourne says he has seen a \u201csmall shift\u201d in the stigma around addiction, though there is still a lot of work to do.<\/p>\n<p>He says he has noticed a lot more people reaching out for help, which he attributes to word-of-mouth because people are getting better.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (via U-Turn Facebook) The executive director of the U-Turn Addiction Recovery Drop-In Centre in Carbonear says he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-768406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}