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Who is David Chiasson 

I am as empty as a dry bath tub. Since forever. Who persists in wanting their own water drained? Who would empty himself to this state of dry, to this state of it’s just not funny anymore. Life has drained itself, emptiness has drained me a thousand times over. Every sunrise, drained. I am an empty bath tub, withdrawn, within, without water. I need fresh water. This old, tired thing that I have become dreams of fresh streams and gentle laps of water! No longer do I want the world, I just want a quiet stream, a gurgling brook that gurgles gently in my ears. It is the window into the world that I need. A peak into the freshness of a good day, glimpses of light sprinkled onto its surface. Until that happens, I help myself to a glass of water and I try to extract myself from the heavy, relentless mountain of accrued consequences. Lord, I am so dry.
David Chiasson

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David Chiasson, whose hope of life wavered at the age of 25, was an intelligent being, of great sensitivity and profound humanity.

His quest for absolute brings him to rub shoulders with the hell of dependence. At the age of 22, some time after his return from a long journey to India, anguished by the inner emptiness and the life that was drying up in him, he goes into therapy for detoxification. He leaves sober and abstinent.

He wins a first battle but not the war.

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Like a wounded soldier on the lonely road of life, he returns to his world little by little. A weakened world. He is struggling to cling to hope. He makes a first relapse, then another. In 2000, under the influence of his drug of choice, he took his life.

David loved to surround himself with people who understood the pain and desperation of addiction. He sometimes coexisted with friends still struggling with addiction problems. As much as he loved being with them, he would have liked to help them ...

His memory will continue to live through the David-Chiasson houses.

Members of the Board of Directors of the David Chiasson Foundation

PRESIDENT
Louis T. Lemay
President
Lemay Architectes
 

TREASURER
Marc-Olivier Bouchard CA
 

Robert Piché
Retired airline captain
Author and speaker
 

ADMINISTRATORS
Virginie Tan
Sales Manager and Financial Security Advisors, Eastern Canada
RBC
 

Alexandre Dumas
Vice-president, corporate communications, National
 

Jean Durocher
Président
Apéro
 

Patrick Bordeaux, MD
Psychiatrist specialized in child and adolescent addiction.
Author & Associate Professor at Université Laval
 

Pierre Benoît
President
Supertek Canada Inc
 

Antoine Chiasson, M.d., B.Sc,
Honorary board member

Resident Doctor
Université de Montréal
 

Jean-Pierre Chiasson, M.d.
F.A.S.A.M., C.C.S.A.M,
Fellow de l'American Society
of Addiction Medicine
Founder and CEO
Clinique Nouveau Départ
 

Jocelyn Rioux, Adm.A., C.M.C., PCC
President
Plan B société de Coaching