Self Made & Sober

Andrew Burki, MSW, founded Life of Purpose Treatment in Boca Raton, Florida in 2012 after enduring his own journey of addiction, failed treatment, and, since 2001, recovery.  He also sits on the Board of Directors for the Young People in Recovery (YPR). Andrew has spent his professional and academic career developing the Life of Purpose model, based on the philosophy that young people, need a reason to want to stay clean and sober. Higher education, more than any other environmental factor, helps produce this desire in that it fundamentally changes the way people in early recovery perceive themselves. 02:02 – How do you make the distinction between having bad things happen to you, doing bad things, and being a bad person (which is fundamentally different)? 03:47 – Andrew started out having very common behavioral problems and dabbled in drug use but when he overdosed in his teens his family realized he had a serious problem 06:15 – In his youth he underwent several forms of treatment that were “a disaster” 09: