{"id":451785,"date":"2026-09-30T04:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T04:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/451785\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T04:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T04:22:11","slug":"dallas-recovery-leader-discusses-addiction-treatment-after-high-profile-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/451785\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas recovery leader discusses addiction, treatment after high-profile deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"

EDITOR’S NOTE: With just a couple of days left in National Recovery Month, two recent high-profile deaths are putting a renewed spotlight on substance use disorder and recovery. CBS News Texas spoke with the head of a Dallas family recovery center who knows the struggle personally. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The recent deaths of actress Hayden Panettiere and Cindy Crawford’s son, Presley Gerber, both of whom had struggled with substance use, hit especially close to home for Heather Ormand.<\/p>\n

Long before she became the President and CEO of the nonprofit Nexus Family Recovery Center, she was struggling with alcohol addiction.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“I wanted to quit drinking for years,” she said. “It was nearly impossible until I found the right therapist and found a 12-step program that really, really helped me.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

She’s now been sober for more than 15 years and says the transformation she experienced is what drives the work she does today.<\/p>\n

Nexus provides treatment and recovery services to women struggling with substance use disorder.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“There’s so many different ways that you can seek this,” Ormand said. “The one thing they all have in common is community. How you do it can be very different.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

One option Ormand says deserves more attention is medication-assisted treatment, or MAT.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, she says stigma still surrounds it. Similar to what you may hear about GLP1s.<\/p>\n

“You’re not doing it on your own. You’re not strong enough to do it on your own,” Ormand said. “MAT helps stop that noise in your head of wanting to use.”<\/p>\n

Federal health officials say FDA-approved medications for substance-use disorders can be an effective, even lifesaving, part of long-term recovery.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For Ormand, the recent high-profile deaths are a reminder that addiction can affect anyone and that help is available.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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