Using peer support specialists to help drug addicts


By AGENCY

A big part of Norton’s job is building relationships with people in the early stages of recovery from substance use disorders, for which she draws from her own history with addiction, homelessness and the US justice system. — TNS

Sarah Wright stops by her peer support specialist’s hotel room-turned-office in the Denver suburb of Centennial in Colorado, United States, several times a day.

But her visit on a Wednesday morning in mid-October (2022) was one of her first with teeth.

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