"I left with a second chance at life"

As an alcoholic living in the Southern Trust I was referred to ASHA in Omagh. While it was a scary and anxious time away from my family for 4 weeks, I found the dual approach of family involvement and medical detox supervision to be mega successful in my rehabilitation. We need more of these services in our country and I left Asha with a second chance at life (when it was headed in totally the wrong direction). But for their intervention I would have been a drain on the NHS in a much bigger way. Let alone the cost to social services that my family would have been casualties to.