Paul Peloquin came from a military background and has served our country well and with honor.  He entered the U.S. Air Force in 1985 and was stationed at Randolf Air Force Base, San Antonio, TX. As well as his father served in World War II in the United States Navy in the South Pacific after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.  Paul worked at Headquarters Air Training Command until 1988.  He received outstanding performance awards at Air Training Command.  He was honorably discharged in 1988.  Though his hometown was Pensacola, Fl, he requested his discharge be set to Birmingham, AL. For the reasons of pursuing his college degrees.  He served in the Federal Army National Guard as a Reservist from 1989 through 1992 and received orders for both Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm.  He was discharged from the National Federal Army Reserve in 1992 honorably at his request due to the passing of his father at which time as an only child he returned to Florida to tend to his mother. 

Paul Peloquin, while working 3 jobs and raising a family, also obtained his MBA and a PHD in Human Services where he worked as a psychologist.  In 1997 while working as a therapist in the Baptist Health Care System at an inpatient health care facility known as the Friary, World Famous for addiction, treatment, and recovery, he saw the need for redevelopment and the certification process of developing a certifying body to credential people having training in the field of intervention, otherwise today known as A Board of Certified Interventionists.  The board founded by Paul Peloquin in April of 1997 and was called The American Board of Certified Interventionists, and it was recognized by the National Counsel on Alcohol and Drug Dependencies, which was the founding organization for AA, founding members Marty Mann and Bill Williams.  Paul Peloquin was asked by Stacia Murphy, then president of NCADD, to work in a cohesive development to combine both organizations in the development of a “National Intervention Network” with a certification process through ABCI. 

Personally, Paul Peloquin has performed over 700 interventions with an 80% success ratio, (Individuals that the interventions were performed on remained clean and sober at the minimum of 12 months plus.  No other statistical information was gathered after a 12-month period). 

In 1998 Paul Peloquin was the first nationally certified compulsive gambling therapist in all of Northwest Florida, South Alabama, and parts of lower Mississippi.  During that time due to the humanitarian approach of his ideas Paul developed and founded as the need became visible in the State of Alabama an organization called The Alabama Counsel on Pathological Gambling.  Its mission was and still is the development of awareness, education, prevention, and treatment of those who become affected or addicted with compulsive gambling issues and to provide treatment to those based on donations and other forms of funding at NO CHARGE to the patient.  It was and still is the first of its kind in the State of Alabama.  This laid semi-active until 2007 at which time Paul Peloquin saw the need and urgency of a more proactive approach to bringing the organizational awareness to the citizens at every walk of life in the State of Alabama.  Paul has spent the last 3 years lobbying for and obtaining support both through the Alabama State Senate, Alabama State House of Representatives, Attorney General Troy King, Alabama Governor Bob Riley who signed a State Proclamation declaring March 5th through March 11th as “National Problem Gambling Awareness Week”