In 2014, Darryl and Kim's oldest son, Chase, died in a drug-related wreck after struggling with addiction for a year and a half. Darryl began speaking on drug prevention in 2016. Since 2018, he has volunteered to facilitate a peer support group for people who have an addicted child, spouse, or sibling.

In 2020 Darryl became a nationally certified family recovery coach and in September 2023 certified as an Interventionist.

Chase, attended college on a football scholarship. He dropped out in the second semester of his freshman year after developing a drug addiction. When Darryl and Kim first learned of Chase's drug habit, they didn't know anything about substance use disorders, and they panicked. They made a lot of parenting mistakes.

Through an intervention, they were able to get Chase into treatment, but didn't realize the proper role of the family in the recovery process. In some ways they were enabling Chase and doing things that may have contributed to his eventual relapse.

Darryl worried about Chase constantly, but it seemed as though his efforts to help him only made matters worse.

Chase returned home from treatment and was doing well with his recovery at first, but months later, he relapsed and in 2014 at the age of 20, Chase died in a drug-impaired wreck. Chase was a passenger in the front seat of his own car. The 18-year-old driver took her own life 7 months later.

After Chase died, Darryl immersed myself in learning everything I could about substance use disorders. (drug & alcohol addiction).

Darryl wrote a book about Chase's life and began doing drug prevention speaking.

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