Mental health, addictions take center stage at New York Fashion Week

Authored by Dillon McClernon

One of the models for a new recovery runway event during NYFW was Deni Carise, the chief scientific officer at Recovery Centers of America, a network of drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers in the US, who recounted her journey to recovery after being hooked to drugs when she began to model in the 1980s.

Carise, now a clinical psychologist and psychiatry professor at the University of Pennsylvania, said that though it was her modeling career, drug use, addiction and her recovery that had led her to this point, she had never imagined that she would have the opportunity to walk down the runway sober. 

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Authored by

Dillon McClernon

Dillon currently serves as the Senior Director of Sales and Marketing at RCA. After his tenure as Chief Communications Officer and senior advisor to RCA, he opted for a full-time position at RCA where he could build a new team linking sales and marketing to directly impact RCA’s mission of saving 1 million lives.