Recovery is good for business

~ Jason Schwartz

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A cool story from Fast Company:

Today, Michael Dadashi is the CEO of MHD Enterprises, a multi-million dollar e-waste recycling company based in Austin. But five years ago he was a heroin addict who couldn’t keep a job and nearly lost his life to an overdose–and that was his turning point. “I’ve been given a second chance over a hundred times,” Dadashi says. “People have really believed in me. I’ve let them down. They believed in me again, and I let them down–but it paid off because in 2009 I finally got sober.”

MHD takes used IT equipment from large companies or returned consumer products and refurbishes, resells, or recycles them. What sets MHP apart from other e-waste recycling companies is that nearly 70% of the staff are recovering or former addicts. “I got plugged into the fact that if I focus my efforts on helping other people get sober, then I can stay sober–and that’s why giving people a second chance is so important to me.”

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Published by Jason Schwartz

I have been an addiction professional and social worker since 1994. I started blogging in 2005 as the Clinical Director at Dawn Farm. I no longer work at Dawn Farm and am now the Director of Behavioral Medicine at a community hospital, and a lecturer at Eastern Michigan University’s School of Social Work. Views expressed here are my own. Keep in mind that the field, the contexts in which the field operates, and my views have changed over time.