DUNCAN, B.C. –
Lance Debree will never forget being a teenager and having his first drink of alcohol.
“It was like, ‘Whoah! Where have you been all my life?’” Lance recalls. “And from then on, that’s all I wanted.”
Drinking was fun at first. Until it wasn’t. Until it led to doing drugs, losing access to his children, and living on the streets for more than three and a half years.
“I couldn’t see a way out,” Lance says. “What am I going to do sober? How do I stop?”
But then after decades of addiction, his heart stopped. Lance woke up in a hospital room that turned out to be his rock bottom.
“It was either I change or I die,” Lance says
Lance chose life, completed months of rehab, and connected with a local bike store owner named Will Arnold, who had shown him kindness on the street.
“I saw that …