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Hello. I'm Peter Harrigan, Executive Director of Palm Partners, and I want to thank you for
taking just a second just to watch our video. We are a drug and alcohol treatment program
that's been featured on the channel A and E, and the show is Intervention. And we have been on
there a few times. We've been able to take clients with absolutely no resources, in many cases
down and out, and have been able to bring them into our program, and bring about total change
in their lives. And this isn't rocket science. I have been doing this for 15 years, and there are
absolute clues that everyone has. We have the same basic six human needs, and if we can work
with each person to find out what problems they've had as far as trauma, difficulties, why
they're using drugs, different problems they've had in their life, and we can change their focus,
we can really turn around your life. And our program has a tremendous staff here, great
education, and we can turn around any problems that you've had, and give you real solutions to
life's problems. We have a terrific family program where families get involved because many
times as an addictive person, and my families know this, that it's not just the individual, it
affects the whole family. And I think there are a few people in America today that don't know
someone that is suffering from drug and alcohol dependency.
One of the very sad statistics in our country today is that only about two percent of the people
that actually need treatment actually get treatment for one reason or the other, and it is not
always financial. Most people just don't know where to turn or what to do. And I want to tell
you and assure you that we're a program that really cares about the individual. We have
solutions that can turn your life around. It's turned my own life around, and today our program
helps thousands of people every year to find a whole new way of life.
Greg, I understand that the program here at Palm Partners is in three phases, and you just
completed phase one. Can you tell me a little about where you're from and
what you've learned while you've been here?
Okay. Yes, I did complete my first phase. I cannot believe I even went one day without
drinking or doing drugs, you know. That-- I would have never, ever thought that, what they've
taught me here is coping skills. They taught me first about my disease and then they turned
around and taught me how to cope with my disease- the actions, the reactions, what it did to
your body, what it did to your mind, what it did to your soul, and what it did to our families.
And they teach you how to get everything back together. They reunite us with our families.
They reunite us with ourselves. And they take care of the spiritual, as well as the mental, and
the physical. So it's like three pluses, you know. So--
What would you say your ultimate goal might be coming out of the program?
My ultimate goal is, first of all I can actually is a future, which I could never see before. My
ultimate goal is go back to my people and, the Native Americans, and to try to make a
difference. I never thought I could make a difference, in anybody's life, not even mine, but I
actually can see that I can make a difference, and it's because of this place.
That's great.
As I stepped outside, the storm raced on. It looked like shattered glass falling in the rain. I
could barely even see. The clouds, they seemed to swallow the Earth. Raindrops so hard, I feel
the sting of them as they're piercing my body with a thousand needles. Sideways they fell, as if
a drunk man walking. Darkness in the middle of the day, like dirty sheets over a window.
Seems so out of place. Fierce winds blowing the pages of a big book left in the rain. Sidewalks
so slippery with every close step I'd reach a crack in the pavement. Afraid to follow of course,
I'd take one step before I take another. Reaching the place I knew best seems so different now
like color to a dark portrait. Although I've been here before and shed storms as this, but not in
the same way of long ago. I now know more about these storms than ever before, therefore I didn't
walk home the same way as before. Finally, I do make it home with the tears of my family to
greet me still recovering from the tears they wept as I left. I hold my family, hug them one by
one. The circle of a circle is now complete. I give God thanks for courage as I stepped outside
these walls of Palm Partners.