Growing online communities offer support amid opioid crisis

Maggs Gibbons knew she hit bottom with her opioid addiction last November when she went to jail for 22 days and missed her son’s 16th birthday

She wanted desperately to recover, but in her rural, southern Illinois town the options remain extremely limited.

“I live in a very small town full of very judgmental people and everybody likes to talk,” Gibbons, 41, said. Face-to-face help is over 30 miles away. Though it’s a long drive, and the three-hour meetings limit time with her two children, she did start attending after she got out of jail. But once-a-week meetings weren’t enough.

And so Gibbons did what a growing number of people living with opioid addiction have done when trying to recover. She went online Read more…

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