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OUTREACH: Program makes difference

 
By Bryan Dean | Published: July 29, 2008    Comment on this article Leave a comment

Chase Morgan knew he had a substance abuse problem the morning he woke up choking on his own vomit, his mother crying as she tried to turn him over so he wouldn't drown in his own fluids.

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Chase Morgan, right, and Mike Boss talk about various treatment programs available for teenagers with substance abuse problems. Morgan said an in-patient program founded by Boss saved his life. THE OKLAHOMAN

"That's when I knew, 16-year-olds don't do this,” said Morgan, now 19. "I felt like a ghost. I knew I had a problem, but I wasn't sure what I was going to do about it.”

Luckily for Morgan, who grew up in Oklahoma City and now lives in Mustang, his mother had a plan.

She and a counselor staged an intervention and sent Morgan to Hazel Street Recovery Center, an in-patient treatment center for teenagers in Texarkana, Texas. The program is one piece of a treatment puzzle that Mike Boss hopes is making a difference.

Boss is the co-founder of Oklahoma Outreach, an outpatient treatment program for drug and alcohol-addicted youths.

Boss decided he wanted to be an addiction counselor after recovering from his own addictions in 1983.

"I was the same maniac these kids were when I was young,” Boss said.

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