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There is a whole lot more to David Katz, “Interventionist”, then what I’m about to tell you. My life to date was very complex. I was born somewhere in Nebraska, and sometime around 1950. The approximations are due to being adopted through Boys Town. In Omaha, Nebraska, and back then paperwork was sometimes printed on tree bark. I am told I have an amount of Sioux blood in me, and I guess that prepared me for being adopted by Jewish parents, where I grew up in Omaha Nebraska.
I started my addiction at the age of 9. I got drunk at a Passover Sedar on Mogan David Wine. I won’t bore you with details but I quit all drinking and using drugs when I was 33. After many failed attempts to get my degree, I finally finished my Masters degree in 1972. I am currently at UCSD extension school in the PhD Program.
I have been very active in my sobriety. I started “The Recovery Program Softball League” in San Diego. I had a hard time attending meetings in a stuffy smoke filled room back in the early days, so I got a bunch of guys that felt the same way, and we had a “12-step meeting “ followed by a softball game. This organization grew to 12 local teams and 10 teams across California. It still thrives today. In fact, my 23 year old son that is clean and sober plays with these same fellows that I started with.
I became an interventionist about 21 years ago. My first intervention was with my sponsor. This man was dedicated to “12 stepping” every Sunday. We would volunteer at the central office of A.A. and when a call came in, my sponsor and I would go respond to the call. My sponsor always carried a small flask of whiskey with him, and would nurse the client until we could find a hospital that was willing to help. Then we would take him into detox.
Since those early days, interventions have grown into its own profession, of which I feel honored to be in fellowship of. I have over 400 interventions to my credit, and I am running at 95% success rate. I handle local San Diego cases, and national cases. I have been to Mexico several times, and Canada once.
Back to the early days, I graduated high school in 1968 from Wentworth Military Academy. I finished my Bachelors and Masters degree at University of Nebraska in 1972. I was married for the first time in 1973, and moved to the local San Diego area. Today, I am in my second marriage, for the past 24 years. We have 2 children together Adam age 23, and Noah age 16.
I don’t regret any part of my life in sobriety. In fact I rejoice in the fact of what I’ve been apart of, and whom I have grown to love and respect. If I didn’t have that push that I needed, through my own intervention, I doubt that I would be alive today. |
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