It’s challenging enough getting a person afflicted by addiction into recovery just once. Kai Denis, of Santa Rosa treatment nonprofit Center Point DAAC, will never forget the man who came back again and again.
And again.
The man was on parole and enrolled in the recovery center’s intensive outpatient program, recalls Denis, DAAC’s (Drug Abuse Alternatives Center) current director of medication assisted treatment, who was the man’s counselor at the time. Disillusioned by a lack of employment, money and prospects, he would place Denis on the receiving end of his loud frustrations—angrily vowing to give up his recovery efforts and be sent back to prison, which would be “easier than doing all this.”…