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Dwayne Ballou

“When you walk into the doors at UMADAOP, you feel something. You can feel that people care.” Dwayne Ballou is a man who has traveled extensively, lived a happy life, and by 56 already enjoyed retirement for several years. However, Dwayne’s life flipped upside down when his daughter began using heroin. Dwayne’s career as a union boiler maker required some intense labor, a detail that Dwayne remembers as a positive aspect of the job. But even in retirement the life of labor still weighs heavy on Dwayne’s body, and so as Dwayne’s daughter began using heroin, her father’s curiosity for how the drug might alleviate his pain provoked him to try. Dwayne, like his daughter, became addicted.

“When you walk into the doors at UMADAOP, you feel something. You can feel that people care.” -Dwayne Ballou, UMADAOP client

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