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National Recovery Month



September is Recovery Month National Alcohol & Drug Addiction Recovery Month 2013


Voices for Recovery


Woody Giessmann (06/30/2009)

Woody Giessmann Voice

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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