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Drug Rehab Rhode Island
is here to help people with drug and/or alcohol abuse problems in Rhode Island. find treatment options. Due to our diverse networking system we can find a treatment option tailored to each individuals specific situation and needs. We are able to provide all phases of recovery included but not limited to, alcohol and/or drug intervention, drug and/or alcohol detox, in-patient treatment, out-patient treatment, short term treatment (30 days or less), long term treatment (90 days or longer).
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We design personalized treatment programs to provide each abuser with the greatest chance of a successful recovery outcome. Our comprehensive networking system works hand in hand with all of the drug treatment centers in Rhode Island. At Drug Rehab Rhode Island we know that each individual is unique and are treated as such. Deciding upon a treatment option in Rhode Island, or anywhere can be a daunting task for any individual or family, we will guide you through each step of a comprehensive treatment plan for you or your loved one. We are determined in our mission, that every drug and/or alcohol abuser in Rhode Island. that has a desire to change their life will be given a chance to recover from their addiction and we are dedicated to ensuring that they are given the opportunity to do so.
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We realize that each individual in Rhode Island. is in a different financial situation and we will find treatment options for each individual regardless of their financial situation. No matter what your financial situation everyone will receive the treatment help they are looking for.
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From tragedy, new life in Rhode IslandCRANSTON, Rhode Island -- Even now, Harry and Janice Benevides are not sure what their 17-year-old son, Marc, was thinking when he shot himself in the head during a standoff with police around 3 in the morning on Friday. Much of it, they believe, may have had to do with his deep fear that even a minor run-in with the law would lead to his being held, once again, at the Rhode Island Training School.
Regardless of the tragic circumstances, his parents say they are certain of one thing: His death will not have been in vain.
Around 4 a.m. yesterday, just 11 hours after his body was wheeled into an operating room at Rhode Island Hospital to begin removing Marc's vital organs, a team of physicians at Leahy Clinic completed putting his liver into a 52-year-old South Kingstown man who until this weekend had not even made it onto anyone's list of potential liver recipients and was given only a few months to live.
The man was Marc's uncle, James Galligan, the husband of Harry Benevides' sister, Lydia.
"We know it's what Marc would have wanted," Janice Benevides said in an interview yesterday in the family's second-floor duplex apartment at 21 Lambert St.
Indeed, his parents say their son greatly admired James Galligan, a mechanical engineer whom he saw as a dedicated father and husband who worked hard all his life.
Though family members knew since the summer that a hereditary blood disorder had so damaged Galligan's liver that he would require a transplant, it was only in the last month or so that the seriousness of the situation begin to sink in for Marc.
Galligan had not yet found a donor, and time was running out. After seeing his uncle at the family's Christmas Eve party two weeks ago, Marc told his parents "Uncle Jim looks terrible."
Journal photo / Kris Craig
Harry and Janice Benevides, in their Cranston apartment, speak of the past troubles their son Marc has had with the law and the comfort they take that six people received transplants as a result of his death.
"Yes, he's really sick," his mother replied. "He's going to die. You just have to be there for him and help everybody get through it because there is nothing else you can do."
The parents say Marc was devastated, though they do not believe it was a factor in his suicide.
Marc, who had just completed his first semester as a student at Community College of Rhode Island's Warwick campus, had a topsy-turvy past. He had been in trouble with the law a few times, starting in 1999, and had been incarcerated at the state Training School a few times, mostly for possession of marijuana.
But his parents said they preferred to look beyond the negatives and contemplate the son as they remember him, a "very kind and very compassionate" young man who loved to play chess and collect "Magic Gathering" cards and who had a deep bond with his 12-year-old brother, Zachary.
Marc had been a student at Cranston High School East prior to his being sent to the Training School where he earned his general equivalency diploma in May. His mother said he was still hoping to go into the Marines but had been told that he needed to have 15 college credits to apply, prompting his enrollment at CCRI.
As Janice and Harry Benevides saw it, Marc was starting to turn his life around.
But, they admit, there was also a dark side. Harry Benevides had always felt that the courts were far too harsh in sending their son to the Training School for "possession of pot." In his view, the sentencing only served to introduce their son to "elements that are not conducive to society."
It was about 10 p.m. on New Year's Day when Harry and Janice Benevides last saw their son alive. He was cheerful and upbeat.
Marc left the house at 10:45 p.m., about the same time his mother was heading out to work on her late-night shift, telling his parents he planned to visit some "clubs."
The next time anyone was sure of his whereabouts was about four hours later when an altercation erupted at the Dunkin' Donuts shop at Park and Reservoir Avenues, about two blocks from the Benevides' home. Once outside the establishment, Marc, who apparently had been drinking, displayed a .32-caliber revolver that caught the attention of a policeman waiting in line at the doughnut shop. A police cruiser also happened to be passing by, and someone shouted toward the cruiser, "He has a gun."
As police radioed for more help, Marc ran with two friends into a house at 25 Lambert St., next door to his own home.
Marc Anthony Benevides
Harry Benevides says he was told by one youth who was there that the police quickly deduced that Marc had sought refuge in the darkened basement.
According to that youth's account, a policeman called out, "You're under arrest." and Marc answered, "I'm not going back."
The youth who heard the exchange told Marc's father that less than a "half-second" elapsed between those final words and the gunshot.
The parents said they had no idea that their son even had a gun, and would have found that information shocking in itself. At 3:30 a.m., the police went to their home and informed Harry Benevides that their son had suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
At Rhode Island Hospital, doctors put Marc's body on life-support machines and held off from declaring him dead until 10:10 p.m. Friday, when any alcohol or any painkilling drugs would have passed through his system.
Janice Benevides says it was she who asked hospital staff about her son becoming an organ donor, recalling a conversation that she had with him a couple of months ago, when Marc mentioned his desire to become a donor. But the possibility of their designating their brother-in-law as an organ recipient did not occur to her or her husband until late Friday evening, when the organ-donor coordinator at the hospital advised them that it could be done.
Janice Benevides said she called Lydia Galligan on Saturday morning to tell her that "maybe Marc could give Jim his liver," but that her sister-in-law didn't want to talk about it. "She said she couldn't bear it, felt it was too much."
But Jim Galligan called a couple of hours afterward to give Janice Benevides his blood type and the names of his doctors in Boston. The coordinator called the Leahy Clinic to make the arrangements, and reported that afternoon that Marc and his uncle were a "perfect match."
After Marc's organs were removed Saturday night, the liver was flown to Boston, where Galligan was in an operating room awaiting the transplant.
As the operation began, Lydia Galligan told Janice Benevides on the phone: "This is the most tragic day of my life, and the happiest day of my life."
Janice Benevides said it was "mind boggling" to think that out of their son's tragedy, there will indeed be new life for a brother-in-law that they deeply love.
"We see this as a miracle," she said. "Everything happens for a reason, and maybe that was Marc's purpose in life, to help other people. We have that faith, and that's what we believe."
As a result of Marc's donation, there are five other people who yesterday received transplants, including two who needed lungs, two who needed kidneys, and one who needed a pancreas.
"I want him to be remembered for doing something good, not something bad," said Janice Benevides.
Her husband agreed.
"It's sad for us that we lost a son," he said. "No one would ever want this. But now there are six families that are feeling some joy."
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