‘An angel without wings’: The man helping hundreds in Boulder County recover from addiction

‘An angel without wings’: The man helping hundreds in Boulder County recover from addiction

In certain Boulder County addiction recovery circles, Harold Niedzielski is a near-mythic figure.  Officially, he’s a community peer recovery navigator at the Longmont Recovery Cafe, a space for people healing from addiction. Unofficially, he’s a recovery fixer, the go-to person for getting someone into treatment quickly, even when the system makes it hard. Under his guidance, wait times that stretch for months are sometimes reduced to days, hel…