Drug Addiction Rehabilitation Program for Adolescents in Elora, Ontario – Portage

Drug Addiction Rehabilitation Program for adolescents in Elora, Ontario – Portage – Residents and graduates of the Portage Elora program describe their struggles with substance abuse and their appreciation for the Portage drug addiction rehabilitation program in Ontario. Residents, staff, and Portage Ontario Board Members talk about how Portage helps Ontario youth seek Freedom from Addiction. Portage is a cross-Canada non-profit organisation that fosters the strengths and skills of substance dependent persons to enable them, through comprehensive and cost-effective interventions based on the therapeutic community approach, to live lives of sobriety, filled with dignity, self-respect, and accomplishment. www.portage.ca

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