CCAR Emergency Department Recovery Coach, Barry Richardson, joins our hosts on this episode. Barry has worked with CCAR for two-plus years, serving more than 1,000 individuals in hospital Emergency Departments across Connecticut. Here, Barry shares his story of becoming, growing up in the North Carolina countryside and how the attraction to an addictive lifestyle and a long search for self started at a young age. Barry goes on to discuss service in the Navy, the social acceptance of alcohol and his addiction to cocaine, how he found his way into fifteen years of recovery and a life defined by service to others, and the skills he uses as an Emergency Department Recovery Coach.----Across the Web----

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