Personal Life
Born and raised in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, Drake is a 1974 graduate of Phillipsburg High School, and worked as a senior corrections officer for the State of New Jersey assigned to the Mountainview Correctional Facility in Annandale, New Jersey.
In the mid-1980s, Drake teamed up with Irwin Fanus, an ex police officer from Carlisle, Pennsylvania and Les Thatcher, a school teacher from Southeastern Pennsylvania to develop an anti-drug program for kids from elementary to high school called "Beyond No". This program focused on the dangers of drugs and ways to resist peer pressure. Drake, a former corrections officer of ten years brought his knowledge of substance abuse as well as the recognition factor associated with his wrestling career to this project. He enlisted the services of several wrestlers to be a part of this project, including Damien Kane, Jules Strongbow and Heidi Lee Morgan. Through the special assistance of the Cumberland County DAs Office, all who presented received random drug screens to insure that they were indeed drug free. This program appeared in schools from Maine to Florida and from Pennsylvania to California. Drake entered into an agreement with several military bases to present the program after receiving positive reviews at the Mayport Naval Air Station in Mayport, Florida where Sgt. Slaughter also lent his voice to the project. Drake's interest in this subject came from many areas, including a grandmother who died as a result of alcoholism, the amount of drug and alcohol abuse he saw among professional wrestlers and his experience in the prison system where an overwhelming amount of inmates had histories of substance abuse.
After his wrestling career, Drake returned to college in Boston for his Master's Degree in psychological counseling with a specialty in addiction psychology and is a director of treatment programming in the Boston area.
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