A Wall Street manager who ended up in crack houses

In November of 1987 Dan Ryan had spent most of the year living between crack houses, under bridges and in the back of a friend's van. He had not seen his children in a year. He had robbed his own mother that summer.

This was a man who once managed on Wall Street and was climbing the ladder, until addiction stripped all of it away.

When he finally got a shot at help, he missed the bus to the shelter, and that defeat sent him straight back to the crack house on his knees looking for rocks on the floor. He made it to Graymoor eventually. Thirty-eight years later he is still sober.