National Alcohol & Drug Addiction Recovery Month - September 2009

Voices for Recovery

Woody Giessmann

(6/30/2009 )

Boston, MA
Founder ofRight Turn

As someone living in recovery, I know that music can be an outlet for people’s feelings. In 2003, I founded Right Turn, an organization that helps artists enhance their creativity by learning to live free of alcohol and drugs. My own recovery helped me to become a drug addiction clinician. I believe that a treatment approach that incorporates creative expression and brings people together into a safe haven to preserve their creative gifts can be successful.

I am committed to spreading the value of addiction recovery through this program and want to help others the same way I was helped. Right Turn is how and where the healing begins.

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The Recovery Month effort aims to promote the societal benefits of alcohol and drug use disorder treatment, laud the contributions of treatment providers, and promote the message that recovery from alcohol and drug use disorders in all its forms is possible.

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