2002, joined DAPC
as the Director

People come to DAPC physically, emotionally and spiritually unstable, with a decade or more of alcohol and/or other drug abuse behind them. Many are addicted to very powerful drugs that have become the center of their life, causing significant changes in brain and body chemistry. Yet regardless of the length of their addiction or its severity, our challenge is the same: get them stabilized.

Show them how the disease affects them and how it can be treated effectively. Get them to face themselves honestly, set up structure for continued support and then return them to the community. A “oneness of purpose” characterizes all of our programs. Long-term recovery from addiction is much more than just abstinence, it requires a total change in lifestyle, and it is pretty much impossible without development of a socially productive lifestyle for the first time.