Amber Hensell-Hicks and Alan Grecula from Frontline Foundations discuss their drug treatment program during a presentation in LaPorte. (SBT Photo/STAN MADDUX)
LAPORTE -It's now up to the LaPorte judicial system to decide whether to bring in a faith-based, substance-abuse treatment clinic to address its heroin problem.
About 40 people turned out for a presentation on Frontline Foundations, which started in 2007 to combat a heroin problem in Porter County and has treatment centers in Valparaiso and Chesterton.
Amber Hensell-Hicks, executive director of the not-for-profit organization, said key ingredients in its success are clinical and biblical components along with group therapy for similar-aged people who can relate to each other.
She said about 40 percent of their clients relapse within the first year after completing 12 weeks of outpatient treatment compared with a 60 percent national average.
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