Family Testimonials
Woody changed our lives and that of our child. After living a life of isolation and addiction to marijuana for years, we hired Woody to help our son. With firm but loving care, and with extensive familiarity of residential programs around the country, Woody was able to send our child to a suitable program where he is improving day by day.
"We made excuses that it was just teenage rebellion, depression, mood swings or…. the list was endless. "
We were lost. We didn’t know what to do. We tried to help our son in so many ways, but none of the ways we were trying were working. We are educated, intelligent people and spent so much effort doing things as a family when our children were growing up, but here we were with a son with an opioid addiction problem.
Growing up he was an excellent student and outgoing, well-liked boy. As a teenager he was distant, uncooperative and had become a person we no longer knew. We made excuses that it was just teenage rebellion, depression, mood swings or…. the list was endless. The signs were there, but we didn’t want to see the real reason for them. The car accidents, falling grades, listlessness, distance, and failure continued and we continued with the excuses and dysfunction in our family. As the years went on, our son became employed and never got into serious trouble, but he never ‘grew up’ and never had enough money to make it on his own.
If we hadn’t found Woody and Right Turn, we think we still would be floundering, and we could possibly be without our son today. He could be either dead or estranged from our family. Instead, we see a well-functioning healthy young adult who has found recovery. He truly took the ‘Right Turn’ in becoming who he is today. We will forever be grateful to Woody Giessmann and his staff at Right Turn for their knowledge and support. We thank him and all the dedicated folks at Right Turn who labor, day in and day out, to help people overcome drug and alcohol addiction.
We finally admitted that he had a serious problem and finally realized it was drugs, but we still didn’t know what to do. The chaos of addiction was becoming our way of life. It was very troubling and confusing to face. We tried and failed at one intervention because we still didn’t have the necessary tools to make it work. We made endless calls regarding insurance and places that could help. As I said, we were lost, but one of the places we learned about was Right Turn, having read an article about it in the Boston Globe and hearing positive feedback from our many calls for advice. This is where the story of our family’s recovery began because we realized that addiction is a family disease.