San Patrignano
welcomes all young men and women who have serious drug abuse problems,
regardless of ideology, social background, or religion, and completely free of charge, accepting no payment or funding from their families or the government.
Deborah Lombardi, LCSW, CASAC, MS contact for further information (646) 246-1257 or email DLombardi@SanPatrignano.org
Since 1978, San Patrignano has taken in over 18,000 people, offering them a home, healthcare, legal assistance, and the opportunity to study, learn a job, change their lives, and regain their status as full members of society.
To welcome and rehabilitate socially marginalized individuals and drug addicts without any social, political, or religious discrimination.
To offer this service completely free of charge to those who need it and their families, and without requesting government allocations.
To put an end to addiction and social marginalization through individualized paths to recovery based on dignity, honesty, responsibility, respect for oneself and others.
To use professional training as an instrument for the total social rehabilitation of the people welcomed into the community
To provide support to families, and create initiatives advancing drug abuse prevention and education for a drug free world.
A Community against social marginalization
Among the problems that affect the drug addict, drug use is the least relevant. The core of the problem is not drugs,
nor the abstinence crisis: it is the human being with his fears and the black holes that threaten to suck him in.
That is why I do not like to say nor hear that ours is a community for drug addicts.
Ours is a community for living, where you can restart in life after years spent as a social outcast.
Ours, if we really need a definition, is a community against social marginalization.
Via San Patrignano, 53, 47852 Ospedaletto di Rimini – Rimini – Italia, Tel. +39 0541 362111