artin Boyd was sitting in solitary connement, thrown in the hole for smuggling drugs into prison. It was there that he spoke to God. “I don’t want to leave prison like this, because at that point death looked like a better option,” Boyd says. “I was a heroin addict and it was one of the most devastating, confusing, twisted things that I ever experienced in my life.” After struggling with his addiction for years, Boyd was looking for a way out. “at existence was torturous,” Boyd says. But God showed him a way. After being released from prison, Boyd entered a treatment program and got clean in 2001. Soon afterwards, he began working for the organization that helped him get clean, and eventually became the rst former client to serve as the program’s director. But he still felt something was missing in the recovery system. M
second Surge site, with the long term goal of opening a women’s facility and a halfway house. Boyd thanks his wife for her strong support throughout Surge’s creation and development, and he knows he will need plenty of support in the months ahead. But it’s the little things that keep his passion alive, saying every time he sees a client succeed, it gives him renewed faith and energy to keep pursuing his mission. “I get the internal satisfaction that can only come by doing what you believe you were put on this Earth to do,” Boyd says. “To see a person come
“How can we have a program where we treat people with dignity and respect?” Boyd says. “at was the energy that went inside of me moving to start Surge.” Boyd founded Surge Recovery in September, 2015, as a place of hope and recovery for those struggling with addiction. He says his own addiction background in achieving sobriety and continuing to work his recovery has helped mold the organization into one that truly reects what it’s like to work toward sobriety. “I believe I had to go through it, and I believe I’m better for it,” Boyd says. “I believe Surge exists directly because I went through it.” A fully rounded treatment plan In addition to their treatment programing, Surge also oers job training, a GED program, and housing support. But more than that, Surge sta work with clients to get to the heart of their issues to help them achieve a full and lasting transformation.
“When you start treating [addiction], you start to see the other issues that make treatment necessary,” Boyd says. “We address the trauma that stays on the plate, that makes you use.” Boyd is very hands-on when it comes to the organization’s mission, leading groups and meeting with clients one-on-one. He thanks his administrative team for freeing his time to do those things, saying he feels compelled to do everything he can to help those in need.
back to life like that...priceless.”
“To be able to do for somebody else what somebody did for me, it's just amazing,” Boyd says. “I really do believe that I'm doing exactly what I was put on this planet to do.” But he still wants to do more. Boyd says he and his team are aggressively pursuing a new location to open a
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