Orthodox priest coordinating addiction treatment centre: Tens of thousands have passed through our hands. 80% success rate

Source: Basilica News Agency

August 10, 2022

    

Father Liviu Burlacu, the coordinator of a centre for addiction therapy, explained in an interview how the lives of people affected by addiction could change for the better.

The residential centre “The Life-Giving Spring”, dedicated to treating alcohol and other drug addictions, has been operating in Bogdan Voda, Bacau, Romania, since 2019.

The centre was opened within the framework of the Socio-Medical Association “Siloam” at Tisa Silvestri Monastery of the Annunciation.

It represented a culmination, as an upper stage of treatment/therapy for alcohol and other drug addictions, of the activities already carried out within the “Life-Giving Spring” Day Centre of the Archdiocese of Roman and Bacau since 2011.

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8/10/2022

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