Greater Nashua
Former addict pays it forward
NASHUA - After successfully completing the program at the Process Recovery Center, Samantha McDaniel came full circle and is now the organization’s admissions director. Growing up in the Lakes Region community of Farmington, McDaniel was a 16-year-old with straight As. Then her father died unexpectedly in 2008. Stricken with grief, McDaniel plummeted into the lonely, dark abyss of addiction. Alcohol and marijuana morphed into harder drugs, eventually escalating to fentanyl and methamphetamine. Once a stellar student, McDaniel’s academic performance quickly went downhill. “Once my dad passed, school got put on the back burner,” she said. “I didn’t know how to handle it.” McDaniel graduated from Farmington High School in 2010; however, her addiction had begun to take its toll. “I graduated by the skin of my teeth,” she said. For 13 years, she ...
