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Rae Ellen Bichell

"Player-coaches" changing recovery game

A big part of Donna Norton’s job as a peer support specialist with the Hornbuckle Foundation is building relationships with people in the early stages of recovery from substance use disorders. Norton draws from her own history with addiction, homelessness, and the justice system to help them get back on their feet. (Rae Ellen Bichell/KHN)

CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Sarah Wright stops by her peer support specialist's hotel room-turned-office in this Denver suburb several times a day.

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

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