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MARS services include: training in medication assisted recovery, a mix of culturally appropriate support groups, drug and alcohol free social activities, recovery celebratory events, peer leader training and mentoring, and a peer council to help direct the development of the project. The most important part of MARS is the Core Training in Addiction and how medication works. This helps to dispell tha myths that many MAT patients have heard and begun to believe because there was nothing to counter them. In addition to the Core Training are various groups that range from educational, to social and spiritual. MARS offers monthly activities that are drug and alcohol free and are selected by the peers. All the staff at MARS either are MAT patients or were MATS patients making MARS truely a Peer To Peer project. However at MARS the staff work for the peers.
MARS Peers made this banner for the 2006 Recovery Walk (New Jersey). MARS was the only MAT group at the walk and we won first prize for the banner and led the walk with it. Now it hangs by our Door for all to see.
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