The program also offers consultation and training for supervisors. We want every person in need to be caught by some part of the HSN safety net. Hopefully, they get what they need. That's always the bottom line for us. The IPAP was created after an ad hoc committee chaired by Dr. Alfred Koumans Jr. of the Medical Department considered a wide variety of issues for four years starting in 1974.
Success stories abound.
But after several months of sobriety, he started drinking again. His family life was a shambles. Some colleagues convinced him that he needed help, and Dr. Fleming arranged for the professor to go to a detoxification center. The previous year, she'd brushed him off with a jar of instant coffee and a day-old croissant. Still sober in 1989, he attended that daughter's high school graduation with his wife and friends.