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.
"Put the ball in his lap and let him run with it." Father Peter G. Young on recruiting the next generation of agents of change, and the wounded healers who lead the way.
No appointment, no lobbyist. Father Peter G. Young on how coffee in a Capitol office brought Governor Rockefeller to his South End shelter to see the drug crisis for himself.
"Father, I can't get a job." Father Peter G. Young on the one mark on a record that locks people out, and his long fight to create taxpayers and restore hope.
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