Hope for the Addicted

This is a story of hope for the addicted. Hope, because it is the story of Paul Fusca, a young addict who had hit bottom. After more than ten years on drugs, starting with marijuana as a schoolkid of eleven years of age, he ended up a near alcoholic, with a $800 a day heroin habit. To support his habit he turned to crime. He was desperately unhappy but felt he could find no way out. He had been in rehab half a dozen times but no program worked; they were too short. But just when had overdosed and was near death, he was rescued by the two women who never quit on Paul -- his mother and Franca Carella, whose small drug rehab center, the Vitanova Foundation in Woodbridge, Ontario, helped Paul when almost no one else could or would.