Age 29Since 08 / 16 / 2017
Jock
I was a prisoner of substances in any and all forms. A slave to the lifestyle for nearly 15 years in search of anything to help me escape reality. Chasing any high that would make me feel an...
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Real people, real recovery. Honest accounts of what it was like, what happened, and what life looks like now — shared to remind anyone still struggling that they are not alone.
Age 57Since 12 / 05 / 2014
Trace E
I drank for 40 years, falling further every day down a crevice I could not climb out of. I was broken, lonely and very sad in the end.
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Age 30Since 05 / 29 / 2012
Candice
Raised by an alcoholic Father and drug addicted Mom. After spiraling into my own alcoholism, I was introduced to opiates after a car accident. Those opiates led me to heroin, which pulled me...
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Age 29Since 02 / 10 / 2015
Sarah
I was face to face with death. I almost lost my family and I lost my free will.
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Age 32Since 10 / 15 / 2017
Jay
Very lonely. I would go weeks where the only time I would leave the house would be to get food, smokes and rum. I spent years wallowing in depression and self pity.
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Age 34Since 05 / 04 / 2011
John (TattooTarzan)
I grew up in a household woth my mother & farher drinking heavy, taking pills and smoking weed,so as I was growing up I thought it was just the right thing to do, I never thought my addictio...
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Age 30Since 11 / 29 / 2017
Chad Anthony
My life was complete chaos. I was living just to use. I was selling drugs and flying by the seat of my pants
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Age 61Since 09 / 05 / 2015
Coleen Young
Here I go again, trying to remember so I can let it all go. But where do I begin? Do I start from the now, or the past? A wise person once told me the only way we will heal, we first need to...
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Age 53Since 01 / 29 / 2008
Sarah Merkel
I was a great drunk. I went to work, raised my kids, fed the pets, etc. You get the picture. But I was sick every morning and really messed my kids lives up. Not cool watching your Mom fall...
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Age 25Since 01 / 02 / 2014
KourtneyDee
I had realized at a young age that I was immensely sad, always. A dark hole was inside me. When I found alcohol, pills and amphetamines, that hole "appeared" to dissipate. Substances gave me...
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