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Heaven, Backwards
By Jonathan Ashley
Photos by Brian Bohannon

A popular belief about drug addiction and alcoholism is that those who end up completely destroyed - living on the street, committing an amalgam of crimes to pay for their habits - are undereducated, ignorant and unaccomplished. Upon spending one day speaking to the residents of The Healing Place, a homeless shelter in the West End that has a drug and alcohol recovery program with a 65 percent success rate,...
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Heaven, Backwards
By Jonathan Ashley
Photos by Brian Bohannon

A popular belief about drug addiction and alcoholism is that those who end up completely destroyed - living on the street, committing an amalgam of crimes to pay for their habits - are undereducated, ignorant and unaccomplished. Upon spending one day speaking to the residents of The Healing Place, a homeless shelter in the West End that has a drug and alcohol recovery program with a 65 percent success rate, this presumption no longer holds water.

See the story Heaven, Backwards by Jonathan Ashley in the November issue of The Highlander newspaper in racks around Louisville, Ky., or online at www.thehighlanderonline.com
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