Kenneth Lucas is a licensed substance abuse counselor and marketing director for the Valley Hope Association. He also volunteers as a co-facilitator of The Many Faces of Chemical Dependency drop-in group at the Franciscan Re-newal Center of Paradise Valley. In 1996, he was certified as an interventionist by The Johnson Institute. He is a former journalist and has been a CD counselor since 1988. From 1989 to 1996, he was administrator/counselor for NCADD/Phoenix where he provided informational pro-grams for the general public. This responsibility, coupled with his NCADD counseling duties, gave