Recovery Looks Like Me – John Harden, M.P.H., L.C.S.W.

What does recovery look like?

 

It looks like me.

 

When I was 18, my mother saved my life by having me court ordered into treatment. At the time, I had every intention to just fool the staff and get out so I could use again. No one was going to teach me anything. Statistically, I should have been dead.

But, something unexpected happened. Something I hadn’t counted on at all. The treatment program worked. The end result was that I didn’t want to use drugs anymore. I had changed. Now, I help others change.