SAN ANGELO, Texas (Concho Valley Homepage) — The Alcohol and Drug Awareness Center of the Concho Valley celebrated its 65th anniversary.

Founded in 1960, the group wanted to help find treatment for those who had been abusing alcohol. They eventually expanded into other types of addiction.

"One of our biggest success stories is that we were able to bring detox, which was missing in our community, for the indigent and the uninsured," said Eric Sanchez, the CEO of ADACVV. "We have a detox program now that allows folks to actually get into very safe detox programs that are medically supervised by our medical director. There is 24-hour care by nurses and a direct care team that takes care of them. Once they complete that crucial detox period, then they enter the treatment phase of the program

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