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Rob Carter’s successful career as founder and executive director of No Turning Back in Baltimore grew out of his own struggles with drug abuse. Born and raised in the Pimlico/Park Heights section of Baltimore, Rob Carter worked as a Baltimore County reman for 27 years until his retirement in 2010. His teenage drinking led to steady marijuana use, then to pills and heroin and cocaine. He experienced “the progression of the disease to the point where I was mentally and spiritually drained, and suicidal.” In 1994, Carter, who had served four years in the U.S. Air Force, went through treatment and got clean at the VA Hospital at Fort Howard, Md. Attending the proverbial “90 meetings in 90 days” helped him establish a solid foundation for long-term recovery. “After I got cleaned up, I felt a passion to go back to the community where I lived and was raised, to offer

treatment to that population,” Carter recalls. “God spoke to me and said ‘I want you to give back to the community where you grew up.’ So, I started looking for properties in the Carter didn’t have to do much looking before he found a ve-bedroom home in the neighborhood, which was in foreclosure. He bought it with his own money, and launched the treatment and recovery program that became No Turning Back. His own participation in the local recovery community made it relatively easy to nd fellow recovering addicts and Before long, “one person came to our program who had access to another property, an eight-bedroom home, also in Park Heights. That became our second property,” Carter says. About a year later, No Turning Back acquired another eight bedroom

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Park Heights area.” START OF AN ERA treatment to that population,” Carter recalls. “God spoke to me and said ‘I want you to give back to the community where you grew up.’ So, I started looking for properties in the Park Heights area.” START OF AN ERA Carter didn’t have to do much looking before he found a ve-bedroom home in the neighborhood, which was in foreclosure. He bought it with his own money, and launched the treatment and recovery program that became No Turning Back. His own participation in the local alcoholics in need of supportive housing. recovery community made it relatively easy to nd fellow recovering addicts and lcoholics in need of supportive housing. Before long, “one person came to our program who had access to another property, an eight-bedroom home, also in Park Heights. That became our second

home in the area and renovated it using a loan from “one of our

grant-givers.”Carter was also able to establish a referral relationship with Gaudenzia, one of the largest treatment centers in Maryland, which has two facilities in Park Heights. In 2015, No Turning Back opened its fth transitional housing residence in the Irvington neighborhood, designated and staffed for women in recovery. Several years ago, No Turning Back began providing outpatient substance abuse treatment, and now serves about 200 patients a year. Another big step came several years ago: hiring substance abuse and mental health

property,” Carter says. About a year later, No Turning Back acquired another eight bedroom

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