Georgia’s Behavioral Health Centers Say Resources Are Limited

Highland Recovery Center in Jasper, Georgia, serves about 20 men in a residential treatment center for substance abuse disorders.

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Chris Craft has struggled with alcoholism for about three decades. He had been drinking since college, but in his 40s, he said he started experiencing the consequences. He lost his job and his marriage, and he started getting into legal trouble.

“I picked up a DUI charge. I had a shoplifting charge,” Craft, 54, said. “There was a while there in Georgia where you couldn’t buy alcohol on Sundays, and I was so addicted to having that in my life every day that I would steal it. I would shoplift.”

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