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In 2009,
43
voices were posted for Recovery Month
Rev. Dr. Robert Gilmore, Sr.
- Submitted 12/17/2009
Military Veteran Overcomes Drugs, Depression, Suicide, Divorce, PTSD after 30 years starts “Hope After Project”
Keywords: military, trauama, mental disorder, mental illness, mental health condition, hospital, substance abuse, depression, family, treatment, support, higher power, faith, employment
Robb Kelly
- Submitted 11/12/2009
Keywords: alcoholic, alcoholism, sobriety, drinking, family, homeless, trauma, support, employment, drinking problem, recovery
Nichole Way
- Submitted 11/8/2009
Keywords: family, support, friends, community, alcohol, drug, drugs, substance abuse, addiction, jail, legal, mental illness, medication, higher power, faith, spirituality, recovery
Roy DiVincenti
- Submitted 11/5/2009
Keywords: family, alcohol, drinking, military, drug, drugs, drinking problem, addiction, hospital, drug problem, substance abuse, sobriety, recovery, higher power, faith
MP Andy Anderson
- Submitted 10/22/2009
Keywords: support, sobriety, family, recovery
Danya Gregory
- Submitted 10/7/2009
Keywords: addiction, recovery, prison, jail, sobriety, family, support, higher power, fiath, hospital
Rob Corie IV
- Submitted 10/3/2009
Keywords: drug, drugs, drinking, addiction, drug addiction, sobriety, co-occurring, mental illness, mental disorder, higher power, recovery
Jacqueline
- Submitted 9/22/2009
After 12 years of being clean, I look back on my life and see how far I have come.
Keywords: addiction, drug, drugs, family, alcohol, alcoholism, substance abuse, treatment, detox, support, friends, sobriety, spirituality, employment, higher power
Billie Jo
- Submitted 9/18/2009
As I sat in a white walled; polka dotted gray floor smoking room; I vividly remembered 14 hours earlier I had taken a knife and literally sliced my wrists.
Keywords: addiction, hospital, mental health condition, mental disorder, mental illness, trauma, legal, prison, jail, family, drinking, medication, drug, drugs, recovery
Nilda
- Submitted 9/18/2009
Nilda was born in New Jersey and raised in Puerto Rico until the age of 14, when she moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts to live with her mother.
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Aaron Cooper
- Submitted 9/18/2009
My name is Aaron and I am the founder of eRehabCoach (www.erehabcoach.com); I'm a happy, fit and addiction-free person.
Keywords: health, wellness, recovery, addiction, substance abuse, drug, drugs, alcohol, employment, support, higher power, faith
Sharon Blair
- Submitted 9/16/2009
My name is Sharon Blair. I am an advocate for drug treatment for those addicted to drugs and alcohol.
Keywords: drug, treatment, addiction, drugs, alcohol, drug addiction, family, court, legal, faith, spirituality, recovery, support
Ron Du Bois
- Submitted 9/14/2009
An important sermon on addiction took place at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Stillwater, Sunday, September 6.
Keywords: addiction, alcohol, drug, drugs, treatment, family, recovery, alcoholism, higher power, faith, community, substance abuse
Charles Middlekamp
- Submitted 9/12/2009
I have been fighting drinking and drug addiction my whole life.
Keywords: drinking, drug, addiction, family, higher power, legal, prison, jail, faith
Virginia and Michael N
- Submitted 9/10/2009
Lack of funds kept our growing alcoholism in check until our late twenties when we rented a house on a lake.
Keywords: alcoholism, alcohol, addiction, substance abuse, family, sobriety, recovery, friends
Brad Mersereau
- Submitted 9/7/2009
I am the sole survivor of an alcoholic family system.
Keywords: alcoholic, alcoholism, family, support, health, wellness, sobriety
Nancy Kennedy
- Submitted 8/28/2009
Keywords: recovery, alcoholism, co-occurring, depression, mental health condition, mental illness, hospital, treatment, medication, drinking, trauma, support, employment, community
Kim Summers
- Submitted 8/25/2009
I consider myself a voice for recovery, even though I have never battled with a drug or alcohol addiction. On June 20, 2008 my fiance died from ingesting an inhalent.
Keywords: recovery, drug, alcohol, addiction, substance abuse, family, support
Barbara Sinor
- Submitted 8/5/2009
I grew up with an alcoholic father and raised an alcoholic son. With the knowledge I learned from both of these men, I chose to become a counselor.
Keywords: alcoholic, family, alcoholism, employment, addiction, susbtanc abuse, recovery
Danielle Soucy
- Submitted 8/4/2009
I started doing heroin in 2005 .went to jail twice ,almost lost my arm from an abcess,and continued to live this life for a total of 4 years.
Keywords: drug, drugs, addiction, substance abuse, jail, prison, medication, treatment, sobriety, recovery
Aaron Kucharski
- Submitted 6/30/2009
I’m a person in long-term recovery, meaning that I haven’t had a drink or a drug since September 6, 2003...
Keywords: recovery, drinking, drug, drugs, sobriety, community, support
Charlie Yetman
- Submitted 6/30/2009
I am one of the luckiest people in the world! It is truly how I feel...
Keywords: recovery, substance abuse, prison, treatment, employment
Christina Thompson
- Submitted 6/30/2009
I no longer do the things I used to when I was obsessed with using. I have learned to respect myself and others...
Keywords: addiction, mental illness, mental disorder, recovery, medication, health, wellness, family, spirituality
Dr Tian Dayton
- Submitted 6/30/2009
What brought me into this field was what brought so many of us in, a personal relationship with addiction...
Keywords: addiction, family, alcohol, drinking, alcoholism, alcoholic, trauma, recovery, treatment
Elizabeth Currier
- Submitted 6/30/2009
The day my world began to crumble, January 6, 1976, I had my last drink. Until then, I had no idea that my drinking was a problem...
Keywords: drinking, alcohol, family, drinking problem, health, wellness, addiction, treatment, recovery, support, community, alcoholism
Erin Bludworth
- Submitted 6/30/2009
I am a 35-year-old survivor who has been clean and sober for almost 7 years. My drug of choice was methamphetamine, and I would stop at nothing to get my next hit...
Keywords: sobriety, drug, drugs, drug addiction, addiction, family, legal, treatment, employment
Jared Hamre
- Submitted 6/30/2009
September 13, 2008, marked my third year of recovery. I am grateful for my recovery. That doesn’t mean life struggles have not come my way, but recovery has given me the tools to now cope with challenges...
Keywords: recovery, treatment, drug, addiction, drugs, friends, support, community
Kevin Hauschulz
- Submitted 6/30/2009
I am a person in long-term recovery, and have not used drugs or alcohol since June 25, 2006. I feel reconnected...
Keywords: recovery, drug, drugs, alcohol, family, friends, addiction, treatment, prescription drug addiction, prescription drug, sobriety, support, support
Kevin Young
- Submitted 6/30/2009
I am in long-term recovery, meaning that I haven’t used opiates, alcohol, and other drugs for more than 20 years...
Keywords: recovery, alcohol, drug, drugs, family, support, employment, friends, health, wellness
R F Maldonado
- Submitted 6/30/2009
I am a married Latino author and songwriter, a former teenage street-gang leader, and a former 25-year heroin/cocaine addict from New York City...
Keywords: drug, drugs, addiction, drug addiction, sobriety, alcohol, jail, prison, treatment, recovery, family
Timothy Harrington
- Submitted 6/30/2009
I started drinking at 12 and managed to not cross the imaginary line of no return until I was about 18...
Keywords: drinking, alcohol, alcoholism, alcoholic, family, treatment, friends, support, employment, sobriety, recovery
Tonya Wheeler
- Submitted 6/30/2009
I’m a person in long-term recovery and have not used drugs or alcohol in more than 18 years. As a result of my long-term recovery...
Keywords: recovery, drug, drugs, alcohol, family, community, addiction, treatment, support
Woody Giessmann
- Submitted 6/30/2009
As someone living in recovery, I know that music can be an outlet for people’s feelings...
Keywords: recovery, alcohol, drugs, drug, addiction, drug addiction, employment, treatment, health, wellness
Daniel Callahan
- Submitted 6/28/2009
I was born in 1960 into a blue-collar lower income family on Long Island twenty-five miles from New York City...
Keywords: community, family, legal, military, drinking, drug, drugs, jail, prison, court, treatment, alcohol, addiction, recovery, alcoholism, substance abuse
Pam Day
- Submitted 5/8/2009
Pam Day cradled her 19-year-old daughter...
Keywords: family, addiction, drug, drugs, treatment, prescription drug, prescription drug addiction, recovery, sobriety, faith, higher power, legal, court
Bill Giese
- Submitted 3/28/2009
I'm a Viet Nam Veteran who after 10 years of thinking he was doing fine fell apart, got heavy into all kinds of drugs and drinking until I thought I had lost my mind...
Keywords: military, drug, drugs, drinking, alcohol, higher power, faith, legal, treatment, family, recovery, support
Shirley Cobb
- Submitted 3/25/2009
For as long as I can remember I've always felt misunderstood, not a part of, and like an alien from another planet...
Keywords: alcohol, drug, drugs, addiction, substance abuse, family, higher power, faith, spirituality, employment, support, community, recovery
Wolf
- Submitted 2/11/2009
I was born to an alcoholic father and mother. My grandfather raised me from the age of four months. I began drinking at a young age...
Keywords: alcoholism, alcoholic, alcohol, family, drinking, durg, drugs, higher power, faith, friends, treatment, sobriety
Jamie Brown
- Submitted 1/29/2009
I was born in New York and have lived in Indiana for the past two years...
Keywords: treatment, drug, addiction, drugs, alcohol, sobriety, employment, support
Maria Moya
- Submitted 1/9/2009
My name is maria moya and I am in recovery. I have been working at the MARS PROJECT since 2006...
Keywords: recovery, support, family, treatment, medication, addiction, health, wellness, higher power, faith
Don Sutton
- Submitted 1/7/2009
My Mom deserted me when I was ten years old; my Dad said I belonged to the mail man, so he spent his time physically and mentally abuses me...
Keywords: family, trauma, addiction, alcohol, drug, drugs, susbtance abuse, recovery, family, support, higher power
Sandra Potter
- Submitted 1/7/2009
In hindsight, I realize that I began experiencing symptoms of mental illness and addiction during my childhood. My early teenage years were cluttered with self-doubt and anguish...
Keywords: mental illness, depression, drugs, alcohol, drug, substance abuse, addiction, treatment, mental disorder, sobriety, hospital, community, employment, recovery
Karen Slappy
- Submitted 1/1/0001
Keywords: drug, drugs, employment, recovery