Joanna Johnson is currently the director of Avalon Treatment Centers, in Tallahassee and Crawfordville, Florida. She has been in the field of addiction for 25 years and a recovery addict for 32 years. She has been the director of treatment center, prison modality, tribal child welfare, tribal mental health, and is currently an expert in many judicial circuits. She was published for the first time in Canada in 1986 by the University of Calgary Press.