“We’re a perfect testament of a helpless, hopeless cause turning into something that’s a real incredible blessing for us. “Almost immediately we had a waiting list, which kind of speaks to the need for the service we are offering,” he says. Garcia calls Parkdale his gift back to the people who need it the most.

“We’ve had the war on drugs-it’s time for a war on addiction.” “I think it’s a big relief when they come here and realize that there’s other people like them,” he says. Still, the one thing he says he always hears from patients, is a need to say that they never compromised their own patients’ care. “You use a vial of 10 mg of a drug and you only needed 5, and there’s 5 to throw away-and in an addicted brain that doesn’t seem too big of a problem!” “It’s as if I could tell them their own story,” he says. David Cummins says while the facility treats other kinds of professionals like lawyers and even airline pilots, health care workers face unique challenges. “But Claudia and Rigo have lived addiction, they have worked the program, and they understand.” “It’s not just Claudia and Rigo opened a treatment center,” she says. Parkdale is a residential center, designed to treat not only their clients’ physical dependency, but also the personal dimensions of addiction which can mean a lifetime of change. “Giving them the same resources and tools and support and re-entry advice and family support that we were afforded a long time ago.”

Reach out to Parkdale Center for Professionals directly. “We’ve treated almost 400 people who have come through here, most of them health care professionals,” he says. Search all of Parkdale Center for Professionalss current and previously listed jobs and positions. We advise calling Parkdale Manor Care Center ( at (660) 582-8161 ) to see what their current protocols and hours for visiting and placement appointments. The result was Parkdale Center near Chesterton, which they opened in 2015. But he and Claudia realized others in the medical profession might benefit from very specific treatment. Through treatment, Garcia beat his addiction. Man Shot by Police in East Garfield Park 5 Taken Into Custody

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