
Kimberly Rash
19:26 - 20:03
“So the person has decided that they no longer want to be in the program or at that location. They can then go to any of their other locations through Anchorage Recovery Center, or they can just exit the program, but they have made that decision on their own.”
- Speaker
- Kimberly Rash
- Timestamp
- 19:26 – 20:03
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- October 21, 2026
From the transcript
So the person has decided that they no longer want to be in the program or at that location. They can then go to any of their other locations through Anchorage Recovery Center, or they can just exit the program, but they have made that decision on their own. They weren't told that they had to remove themselves from that property location. And what is the expectation for substance use on property, just in terms of like the, in the larger scheme of this kind of operation? Is this Is this something we would anticipate seeing?
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