Founded in 2012, Sobriety Foundation, formerly SOL Scholarship Foundation, helps Utahn adults with substance abuse disorders find successful, sustained recovery from drug and/or alcohol dependence. Substance abuse is one of the critical public health programs of our time. In the 2016 Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Annual Report, it showed that 134,172 adults in Utah needed treatment for drug or alcohol dependence, but the public system could only serve 13,400 individuals. The Sobriety Foundation helps close the gap and offer a way to sustainable sobriety where public funding isn’t able to meet the need. Annually, we are able to support about 60 individuals in our program and our vision to increase that number each year.
“Addiction doesn’t happen in a social vacuum”, reiterated board member and Clinical Chairperson Cassandra Gordon. “It happens within the context of families, friends, jobs, communities and environment.”
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