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Article: Cultivating SOBRIETY; Eden House a success story Twenty-five years after its founding as a drug treatment center for Vietnam vets, Minneapolis' Eden House has flowered into Eden Programs, a hard-core but supportive community that fosters sobriety for men and women.(VARIETY)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- September 21, 1996
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From the beginning, Eden House took only folks who were nearly down for the count, executive director Dan Cain says.
First came the vets who'd traded the morass of Vietnam for that of heroin. Then the felons. Then single mothers on cocaine. And kids who get high inhaling the fumes of color markers, White-Out or industrial cleansers.
"A last-ditch place? I'd say that's accurate," Cain said as Eden House - expanded and renamed Eden Programs over the years - today celebrates a quarter-century of spreading sobriety.
The operations center is 1025 Portland Av. S., a deep brick building in downtown Minneapolis, among the apartment buildings and ...
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