Struggle vs. addiction a 'serious business'
26.09.11
They’ll be urged to see the need for sober high schools, which are analogous to smoke-free buildings, only without the PC stamp of approval.
“I remember hearing a young girl speak about going to (a prominent local high school),” Dan O’Connor said. “She’d been in detox several times. She said, ‘Like many of you older people who were told to stay away from barrooms after you got sober, I was told that, too. But my barroom was the ladies’ room at school.’ This kid just wanted to be able to go to school without having that fear.”
O’Connor, 54, has become nationally involved in the establishment of employee assistance programs since helping to establish his own at Nstar back in 1992, after a co-worker helped him conquer his own demons in 1986.
Now this Hyde Park resident sits on the executive board of MOAR, the Massachusetts Organization for Addiction Recovery, which is sponsoring today’s event.
Source: Boston Herald