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Those seeking help with addiction are being encouraged to attend open-air meetings at the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art and the lush surroundings of the Botanical Gardens as part of September’s Recovery Month. The Onion Patch Group of Alcoholics...

The Salvation Army is today holding its seventh annual Recovery Walk to highlight “the struggle of addiction and the toil it has on the social fabric of the community”. The clients and staff at the charity’s Harbour Light addiction programme complete...

Lennox Boodram wants Bermuda to know he’s very, very sorry. He said a crack addiction made him steal $42,050 from KBB while he was the environmental charity’s executive director. Jail and rehab helped him heal — the 55-year-old is now the head of a d...

Charlotte’s Sail for recovering drug and alcohol addicts has been postponed as a result of potential repair delays to the Spirit of Bermuda. The Spirit is in Maine undergoing repairs and so the sail, previously due to take place on October 1-2, will...

Mary Smith was 8 when she had her first drink. It was an accident. She took the miniature bottle from her grandfather’s bar, thinking it was soda. “It was a pretty green bottle,” she said. “Once I got that warm, fuzzy feeling, I knew it was alcohol.”...

A Pembroke man has admitted stealing seven items in seven days from Gorham’s hardware store to fund his drug habit. Norman Bell, 55, shoplifted tents and barbecue sets worth more than $2,700 combined during the spree at the St John’s Road store betwe...

Parents were urged to make a difference in underage drinking yesterday as Alcohol Awareness Month launched on the island. Anthony Santucci, the executive director of the Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, described the April initiative as a “call to...

Low self-esteem can set young girls up for a multitude of problems: depression, anxiety, binge-drinking and disordered eating. Catherine Sousa is offering help before it gets to that point. Her ten-week programme will identify individual strengths an...

The Tobacco Control Act 2015 passed in the House of Assembly yesterday after a series of amendments. The Act had been tabled with the aim of improving Bermuda’s overall health and preventing children from taking up smoking, but became the subject of ...

Tara Kessaram decided enough was enough. The 33-year-old doctor was tired of losing patients to preventable diseases. She left clinical practice to study public health in 2011 and in April, moved to the Solomon Islands to reduce the impact of cigaret...

As Belinda Castree’s 40th birthday approached, she told her friends not to give her any gifts. Instead she asked them to donate to an ocean-bound programme aboard the Spirit of Bermuda for people recovering from alcohol and drug addiction. The Char...

Parents should talk to their children about drugs and alcohol “early and often”, Pride Bermuda has urged. Samantha Smith, a programme coordinator at the substance abuse prevention charity, said that children were beginning to first experiment with to...