Leonard left school in year 7. He couldn’t read or write at that stage. He was getting in and out of prison as a teenager and picked up his first drugs in between those sentences. As the addiction got serious, his crime got serious too. Leonard had been in A, D and H Division at Pentridge, Bendigo, Ballarat, Dhurringile and various other Correctional Centres, but the worst prison for him is ‘the prison of the mind’. 

His recovery journey began when Leonard was first introduced to meetings in 1989. Leonard went through multiple relapses, and in the final stint of his arrest for supplying drugs, Leonard got bail to a private rehab, where he stayed clean and recently just celebrated 17 years clean and sober.

Leonard is now the Founder and CEO of Vicdor Living Centre, a not-for-profit organisation that provides support for people in their recovery journey of substance abuse. 

http://www.leonardottone.com/vlc 

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