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Recovery advocate urges family-centered interventions as key to getting loved ones into recovery
Summary
Danny Deaton, founder of Your Living Proof, told the symposium that families — not only individual will — often determine whether people in addiction start and sustain recovery, and he described a family-intervention approach his organization uses with a reported 78% family-success rate in recent surveys.
Danny Deaton, a certified family interventionist and founder of Your Living Proof, addressed the Davis Community Resilience Symposium on the role families play in addressing substance use disorders. Drawing on his personal recovery and professional experience, Deaton argued that addiction frequently hides in secrecy and that families often lack the tools and coordinated plan needed to prompt treatment entry.
Deaton cited national figures he attributed to 2022 Department of Health and Human Services data, saying roughly 52,000,000 people are "known"…
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