Nov 30, 2019
Growing up in Manhattan, in New York City, Alana went to all the best schools. She and her friends all came from affluent families residing on Park Avenue. Alana thinks her first drug was food; she ate to feel good about herself, but her weight gains caused her to binge-and-purge and try cigarettes to lose weight. Her...
Nov 29, 2019
Bob remembers his last New Year’s drink. He remembers all the drinks he had that New Year’s. He was a young husband and father, and attended a neighborhood celebration. He doesn’t remember much besides the drinks, and the fact he became “very inappropriate.” His taste for alcohol started in childhood, as...
Nov 28, 2019
Ralph is enjoying a multi-year stretch of sobriety. But before his sobriety began, he spent 43 years using alcohol, being drunk all throughout the time he spent in the Navy, attempting to run a business, being married and raising his kids. But his sobriety came when his little grandson refused to kiss him goodnight...
Nov 27, 2019
Pete is an alcoholic who had his first drink at age 13. Despite being a child of alcoholics in recovery, who grew up surrounded by the precepts of the “the program” he still became one himself. His drinking was relentless, to the point he viewed it as a spiritual experience. He couldn’t identify with other kids in...
Nov 26, 2019
Growing up in South America, Anna was often offered tastes of alcohol at family gatherings when she was a small child, but even then she knew she wanted to drink. At age 13, she was able to buy a bottle of something and she drank to the point she was drunk, much to her friends’ amusement. Her father, an admitted...