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Charter school to aid recovering addicts.
Byline: Staci Hupp
Mar. 21--Indianapolis-area teens fighting to stay off drugs and alcohol will have a new way to escape peer pressure next fall at the state's first charter high school for recovering addicts.
Hope Academy, a branch of the Fairbanks addiction treatment center in Lawrence Township, will become the city's 13th mayor-sponsored charter school when it opens Aug. 3.
Only about 20 similar schools operate nationwide. They aim to do what other high schools often can't: Give teenage addicts a solid education apart from the culture that exposed them to addiction.
Hope marks a pioneering new direction for local charter schools, which are taxpayer-financed but run largely free of traditional district control. Organizers expect to enroll as many as 120 students in five years at Hope. Only live-in treatment patients have special tutors. Rehabilitated students such as Matt Wynn generally go back to their high schools.
"It was really hard," said Matt, 15, who relapsed with marijuana and OxyContin painkillers once he returned to…
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