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| Rick Pendery has spent the last 30 years working in | | | | His road as a substance abuse expert began in the |
| substance abuse programs and feels that | | | | 70s when he worked first in a methadone clinic. But |
| heâs got the keys to reduce recidivism. | | | | there he saw too many people walk out of the clinic, |
| Rick Pendery founded and ran a six year pilot of the | | | | into the parking lot and buy heroin. This treatment |
| Second Chance Program in Ensenada and Tijuana, | | | | was clearly ineffective. Looking around, Pendery |
| Mexico as well as another pilot in for nearly two | | | | came across a program called Narconon. This |
| years in Puerto Rico. The Second Chance Program | | | | program he found to be very effective. Working |
| freed over 6000 inmates from the interminable | | | | with them for several years he became the chief |
| treadmill of drug addiction that leads to more crime | | | | administrator for a Narconon Program, in El Paso Tex. |
| and re-incarceration. He has now successfully opened | | | | Later he was promoted to be the Executive Director |
| a 600 bed secure rehabilitation facility located in the | | | | for the program and eventually became the senior |
| vacated Westside Jail west of Albuquerque, New | | | | administrator over 30 Narconon programs in the US. |