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Review: For These ‘Recovery Boys,’ Sobriety Is a Steep Climb

Farms and Friends –

June 29, 2018 – Opening a wider window into a world many of us know only from news reports and the long-running television series “Intervention,” Elaine McMillion Sheldon’s “Recovery Boys” tracks four young opioid addicts through the chutes and ladders of recovery and sober living. Hailing mainly from rural West Virginia, the men cycle in and out of Jacob’s Ladder, a farming-based rehab clinic founded by the warmly empathetic Dr. Kevin Blankenship, a specialist in critical care.

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