Stories of addiction and recovery from people just like you.
Jordan
There’s, like, kids at school that were taking pills, smoking weed and stuff. And I was just like, I don’t know,…
Karen
My 16-year-old daughter, who had everything going for her–literally–is at her third residential…
Tammy
I started out as many of you do testing the waters a drink here an occasional joint. As I got older and I was on my third marriage my…
Brenda
When I was younger, high school years…15 through maybe 25…I experimented with a lot of drugs. I wouldn’t say I…
Caleb
My first experience with it was my father was addicted to marijuana, and so I thought that I grew up around it so there was nothing wrong…
Cindi
Well, to the best of my knowledge, he was probably about twelve when he first started to experiment with…
James
My story began when I was very young in the home. Both my mother and my father were active alcoholics. Um, I had no structure. And once I…
Melissa H.
This is my story, I grew up in a destructive home, left home at 16 y/o, at 21 I had tried meth for the…
Kim
My son was 16 when he first started using. He started smoking pot. Uh, I found out. He got arrested for…
Carla
Three years ago, I had reached the bottom in my addiction and suicide was an actual option to me. I couldn’t imagine…
Chris Medley
had been addicted to drugs all my life, it started after being sexually, physically, and emotionally…
Melissa
I dated a guy for six years and we had two kids together…He got me hooked on meth. We lost our kids to my parents and we went downhill…
Ian
I was never really a social person in high school, but I also wasn’t someone who thought I would become an addict…
Elizabeth
I never fit in as a child. I was always the outcast and, you know, I never had friends. Around junior year of high school, my friends were…
Tammy
I started drinking in college because I was sick of being the kid everyone asked, “You don’t drink? Then…
Stephanie
“Sometimes what you are fighting so hard for is a dream that your ego is not ready to let go of… But that step you need to take backward…
David
In 7th grade my dad, um, worked overnights, and I was walking through, uh, town. And I hit the square,…
Michael
First time I thought I was out of control was when I had moved up to live with my girlfriend at the…
Synthia
In 2006, I was going through a divorce, I was just five weeks post-surgery on some cancer cells they found in my…