Stories
Pete H.
In 1970, forty-two-year-old Pete found himself under a bridge and at the end of his rope. "I drank my last bottle and I looked up and said, 'God, what do I do now?'"
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Dave C.
Dave remembers drinking and smoking pot at age twelve with his older brother. He stuck to drinking beer until after Vietnam. After ‘Nam only whiskey would put him to sleep and quiet the nightmares.
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Dean W.
He recalls stopping after work at the ice house, knowing that he should be home in two hours with his wife and children. He never meant to have more than two beers, but night after night he'd come home after midnight.
Kirby B.
In the early 70's, the staff at a psychiatric hospital diagnosed Kirby as an alcoholic at age fourteen, two years after he started drinking. He grew up in an East coast resort town, where social drinking was the norm.
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Patrick L.
Patrick liked drinking beer back home in North Carolina. After getting drunk with his buddies, he'd hate that hung over feeling and could take the beer or leave it.
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Bobby G.
An addict never knows for certain whether this time he will stay sober. Bobby is one of those addicts, living at The Men's Center periodically since 1997, trying to keep sobriety as a way of life.
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Although our stories are true, names and photos have been changed to preserve anonymity.
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