Justin Garrity is in sustained recovery, having achieved over eight years of continuous sobriety which he attributes to supportive community resources and active networking with other individuals following similar recovery pathways.  Justin currently serves as the Director of Recovery Services at Healing Transitions’ Men’s Campus. In this position, he oversees the peer-based recovery program, a recovery outreach program, clinical case management, Alumni services, and the Rapid Responder program, a Post Overdose Response Team that sends peer support specialists with Wake County EMS to follow-up on opioid overdose survivors within 24-72 hours of the overdose episode.  Providing tertiary prevention and harm reduction supplies, the Rapid Responder program encompasses a Syringe Services Program, unsheltered outreach, Jail in-reach, and naloxone training and distribution.   He lives in Wake Forest with his wonderful wife and their three cats.