Four graduates of the Drug Court program shared powerful stories about addiction and recovery. One woman credited the program with saving her life. Their stories were markedly different in many aspects, but with similar themes. The four most recent graduates of Allen County Drug Court — an intense, supervised recovery program drug offenders can complete as a means to escape a life of addiction — shared stories at a ceremony Thursday. Graduates Ashten Wilson, Amanda Sharp, Jacob Bancroft and Tabitha Valentine each described, in varying tones, how tough circumstances in their younger years eventually led to drug addiction and eventually legal woes. Each shared the hopelessness that followed before the life raft that is Drug Court — launched in 2011 at the suggestion of former Allen County Sheriff Tom Williams — eventually gave each a new lease on life.
Source: The Iola Register
