Father Peter G. Young takes us back to his Albany gym shelter, where men fought DTs at night and talked sober by morning, and the question that changed his life.
Before "treatment, not jail" was a slogan, Father Peter G. Young said it in an Albany police court. He looks back at building New York's addiction treatment from scratch.
Father Peter G. Young built a prison recovery program the men ran themselves. He explains why ownership, plus treatment, housing and a job, made it stick.
You can't get clean on the corner where you got high. Father Peter G. Young explains why recovery starts with a safe room, and the one commitment he asks for in return.
"The community is the answer." Father Peter G. Young explains how one priest became a constituency, and why recovery and reentry still depend on the neighborhood.
"Why are they drinking?" is the wrong question, says Father Peter G. Young. He explains the compulsion, the brain's craving center, and his decades-long fight to treat addiction as a disease.
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