(Sponsored) When Aaron Ward walked into an indigent detox center in Las Vegas at age 23, he had already burned through jobs, lost the support of his family and spent nights bouncing from place to place with nowhere else to go.

“I just had enough,” he said. “I was sick of couch surfing. Nowhere to go, no real job; I blew them all because of my addiction.”

That turning point, at a facility called West Care, became the start of what Ward calls a “spiritual awakening.” Thirty-five years later, the Henderson, Nevada, native is the clinical director of Lion’s Gate Recovery in Southern Utah, where he has dedicated his career to helping others break free from alcoholism and drug addiction.

A career built from rock bottom

Ward’s journey after detox took him through a treatment program in St

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