Drug Stories Project
By Drug Stories Project
Drug Stories ProjectMay 22, 2018
Ben Heldfond -Accountable in Recovery & Love
Drugs and alcohol may have dulled the pain of Ben Heldfond’s youth, but they did not make the pain go away.
In recovery he learned lessons about accountability that finally helped him process the pain – lessons which he would apply to all aspects of his life.
“Our Happy Divorce,” the book he co-wrote with his ex-wife, Nikki DeBartolo, about their journey to successful co-parenting and lasting friendship, was published in October 2019.
Michael King -Politics & Addiction
Change doesn’t come about on a national scale without strategic planning and organizing. Just ask Michael King.
Michael spent a decade organizing & running political campaigns around the US. Now, as the Director and Creator of The Communities Project, he’s taking that expertise to communities across the country to align their voices and combat addiction through organizing.
But first he had to work through his own addictions to alcohol and gambling.
Jam Alker - Breaking Barriers
Denise Williams -My Twin Sons
She wishes she had been better prepared.
Paula Fish -Drug Court
Maureen Cavanagh -Maternal Instincts
Yana Khashper -Filling the Void
Sicily Owings -I Work at a Methadone Clinic
Isabel Landrum - Working on Myself
Eric Sterling - Inside the War on Drugs
Now he has spent the last 30 years speaking out against the repercussions and cynicism of the drug policy he helped enact and the destructive nature of the war on drugs.
Angel Traynor - Recovery Housing
So she stepped in with Serenity Sistas housing, a safe haven for up to 47 people in recovery.