Davida Coady, East Bay doctor and addiction counselor, dies
Davida Coady never gave up on people, even after they gave up on themselves.
She mortgaged her house to create the first of 10 alcoholism treatment centers in the East Bay, known as Options Recovery Services. And when she wasn’t treating clients there, she was visiting prisons and teaching inmates how to counsel one another out of addiction.
“I was completely hopeless, but she believed in me,” said her husband of 16 years, Tom Gorham, who met his future wife while he was sitting in a Berkeley jail cell.
Coady died Thursday of ovarian cancer in an Alamo hospice. She was 80.