Posted on 07/05/2024 9:40:19 AM PDT by thegagline
The suspected drunk driver accused of mowing down 10 people, killing three, at a Fourth of July celebration on the Lower East Side is a substance-abuse counselor and author of “The Sober Addict” — who claims his passion is to help “prevent death,” The Post can reveal.
Daniel Christopher Hyden, 44, has been arrested and charged with drinking under the influence after he allegedly drove a gray Ford F-150 through the Water Street and Jackson Street intersection, over the sidewalk and into people — including children — celebrating at Corlears Hook Park, according to police.
He is expected to later also be charged over the deaths, sources told The Post.
Hyden — who has lived in New Jersey and in the Bronx — penned a 2020 book called “the Sober Addict,” which is billed as “a practical guide on how to effectively live and cope with the dysfunctional, lifelong disease of addiction.”
“‘The Sober Addict’ is a book for all those impacted by the disease addiction. Within the pages of DC Hyden’s book, addicts, family members, enablers, and helpers will find unconventional ways to combat addiction from Onset to Remission,” the synopsis reads.
“This guide will help you learn how to function with this dysfunctional and chronic illness.”
In the book, Hyden describes himself as an “ex-professional addict…with over 18 years of use and abuse experience” and claims “addicts don’t choose addiction — addiction chooses them.”
“My passion is to help my addicted clients successfully move through the various ‘stages of change’ to prevent their deaths,” he wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I suspect there are better photos of him...
Can’t get much better..........................
This is more typical of counselor types than most people realize. The profession (psychologists really, no matter what they call them) is chockablock with addicts and perverts and groomers. Maybe not too many cause drunk driving crashes. But seeing them almost always makes people more crazy, not less.
D@mn. Is that from the crash, or did he get some “street justice” at the scene?
Time to throw both him and his fat lip under the jail.
That will be where he can sit and update the book he wrote about beating addiction and ‘preventing death’.
will find unconventional ways to combat addiction from Onset to Remission,”
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Get one Gray, Ford F150 Pickup Truck.
Get drunk.
Drive into a crowd, mow down 10, kill 3.
Get locked up tight, thus eliminating substance abuse possibilities.
(Should work, won’t . . . wait and see)
He looks pretty cleaned up in the second photo at the link.
There's his defense right there.
Better the survivors and witnesses had beat him to death.
“Get locked up tight, thus eliminating substance abuse possibilities”
Spending 5 years in my church’s prison ministry tells me that statement unfortunately couldn’t be further from the truth.
Seems like an odd crime.
Ah yes, I recall seeing his book, “The Sober Addict”, right next to Biden’s latest copies of “The Influential Mumbler” .
Spending 5 years in my church’s prison ministry tells me that statement unfortunately couldn’t be further from the truth.
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I figured that. Thus my last statement.
On a Woke note, will he get released, and what will his sentence be?
Was that caused by the accident or did the people in the crowd beat the bleep out of him?
Ha. You got my question out first.
Wait whut? You clicked on the link???
Yeah, I’m one of the few.
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