The goal of CityTeam's Recovery Program is to help addicted individuals reach a turning point and commit to allowing God to have control their lives.

Overcoming Strong Addictions

Rod was born and raised in Texas in a large family. His parents worked hard, but often had little time to spend with Rod. They drank and frequently partied on the weekends to relieve their stress. Rod felt alone and longed for attention. He did fairly well in school, until his senior year – that’s when he started to hang out with the wrong crowd. He got involved with drinking and eventually smoking. Rod barely graduated from high school while continuing his destructive behavior.

At 20 years old Rod joined the Marine Corps. He thought this would help provide the much needed structure he lacked in life. Rod managed to stay clean from drugs during his military service years but still chose to drink occasionally. After completing four years in the military, Rod began work as a Security Guard.

During this time Rod met people and started going to parties where he would drink socially, but eventually began experimenting with harder drugs – he was soon hooked. His addiction to heavy drugs went from monthly, to weekly, to needing drugs everyday and using whatever money he had on him to pay for these expensive habits. Rod didn’t realize how bad his addiction had become until he started noticing that all of his money was being spent on drugs.

Since all the hard work he was doing at his job still left him penniless from buying drugs, sadly Rod decided to quit his job. When his family heard about him quitting his job, they became very concerned about him. That same year Rod’s father passed away from cancer and he turned to the bottle again to help cope with the pain.

Around the same time his nephew who had also been in the military was stationed in a nearby city needed help driving a moving truck to his new home. Rod went along and decided he liked living up north better. This only led to the same life-style as before; he was caught in a downward cycle of bad choices. He admits that his addiction became so bad that he turned to stealing from his parents to feed his drug habits. He was desperate and needed help.

Rod met a friend who told him about CityTeam’s Recovery program and how much it helped him get over his addictions. Rod felt this was his last hope to get clean.
CityTeam has helped Rod to open up more and get the support he needs, giving him real hope that he can overcome his addictions through the love of Jesus Christ.

His hopes are to graduate from CityTeam, stay clean, work and possibly get married one day in the future.

Thank you for providing hope to men like Rod.