By the mid 1990’s my cocaine addiction was out of hand; it had all but...

The middle years: 18-30   Through years drinking and drugging I met who I thought was the man of my dreams (he paid attention to me),  The first night we met we did cocaine and that became the norm of our existence, ...

People often refer to your teen years as the best years of your life....Mine were a nightmare.   At 16, I was what society would deem a 'wild child'. I had a lack of respect for my parents, a desire to do what I wanted to do,...

So Growing up , my mother was more interested in being a social butterfly than being a mother. Many times I felt like I was put on this earth just so my mother could say "these are my children" .Made me kind of open to be approved by anyone. I jus...

I wasn't one of the people who had a horrible bottom that would bring me into recovery -- just because you jump off before you reach destruction doesn't lesson the reality of addiction.  Some are just more fortunate the others. I was...

I grew up in a messy house. I was too ashamed to let kids come over. At a young age I realized my house was different. It was then that I had to live a lie and pretend I was “normal” and I c...

Hello sober brothers & sisters I have been clean & sober since 1992.I hit rock bottom two years before but didn't quit using cocaine. I'm a baby boomer born in the middle of the 50's so my generation was liberal towards smoking pot...

Journey to freedom......I was born with a cleft palette my whole childhood I felt different got made fun of by the neighborhood kids and by 7 I shutdown and withdrawn after I seen my daddy cry at my grandmoms funeral "why did god make my daddy cry...