ROCKING AND ROLLING INTO RECOVERY
Anyone who has heard Portugal. The
Man’s Grammy-winning music or seen Eric Howk’s guitar work during a seminal
American Music Awards appearance knows he can rock.
The question, when the 40-year-old
guitarist-vocalist owned up to years of substance abuse and sought treatment,
is could he roll…into a residential treatment center that accommodated people
with disabilities.
Howk, a member of Portugal since 2015,
grew up with the band’s singer John Gourley and bassist Zach Carothers in
Wasilla, Alaska. Howk sustained a spinal cord injury in 2007 and uses a manual
wheelchair for mobility.
He was sitting against a wall in a
friend’s yard when the wall collapsed. Howk fell 12 feet and ended up with a T4
spinal cord injury.
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