Douglas Leech - CEO, Ascension RS - Fully Integrated Substance Use Disorder Treatment Centers

Douglas Leech is Founder and CEO of Ascension Recovery Services ( https://www.ascensionrs.com/ ), an organization focused on developing and managing comprehensive, fully integrated behavioral health systems, treating Substance Use Disorders and co-occurring mental illness across the full continuum of care.

Mr. Leech has a B.S. degree in Accounting from Pennsylvania State University and worked at Ernst & Young in Pittsburgh before returning to Morgantown, West Virginia and founding Ascension RS.

Through his own struggles with addiction and subsequent recovery, Mr. Leech developed a passion for helping those suffering from the diseases of addiction and set out to increase access to substance use disorder (SUD) treatment across West Virginia and the United States.

Mr. Leech has built Ascension RS into a national leader for developing comprehensive behavioral health systems that provide the highest quality clinical care with a sustainable business model.

Mr. Leech also founded West Virginia Sober Living ( WVSL - https://westvirginiasoberliving.com/ ), a self-sustaining 501(c)(3) non-profit, operating recovery residences, job creation and reintegration programming, and a network of peer recovery coaches providing broad community support for SUD throughout West Virginia.

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