Thoughtful conversations with the people of Maine

I think there is, frankly in all these things, a bit of risk. People still engage in it because they love being out in the purity of that kind of nature. And also because they like the rush of it. There is that factor that you just have to own up to that you like that kind of thing.

The thing that absolutely keeps me going is I can't stand it when there's someone out there in pain and they don't know that somebody can help them. There are people that we see that have been two years with low back pain, and then they come in. Sometimes it's as quick as a visit or two.

I ended up on the streets of Portland as a homeless gutter drunk is really where my path led me and had two children. I ended up in a 12 step program, and I went to rehab in November of 92. It was there that I learned that I have this disease of addiction that I can't control with my own head.