Church basements are stereotypical settings for addiction recovery meetings. And Michael DePriest says he understands why, but that, maybe, it’s time for them to move into the daylight.
So DePriest, the founder and director of the nonprofit recovery community organization MyRecoveryKC, developed a program that’s secular and takes place in a public library.
“I do think that, in order for us to change the stigma around recovery, around addiction, we do need to come out in the forefront a little bit more,” he says, “so having these meetings in these public spaces, instead of the back room of a place.”…