My Name is Lori-Ann: This is My Story of Recovery from Alcoholism and Drug Addiction 
My name is Lori-Ann and I am a recovered alcoholic and addict which seemed like an impossible task. My journey began at a young age of 14. I was adopted ...

My Father's Alcoholism: Feel Like I'm Being Stabbed With a Knife ... 
I am now 15 years old, my parents divorced when I was about 12 years old. It was really hard on me and my siblings but we managed to go through it.
They ...

Miriam's Alcoholism Story ... Alone For The Ride: How Do I Stay Sober Without Support? 
I've been sober for two days. I still don't believe I'm an alcoholic, but then why am I here, reading everyone's stories? Still in denial perhaps?

I'...

Dani's Alcoholism Story: I Am Ready to Quit Drinking 
Again I was at work and received an email from my fiancé that he can no longer deal with my drinking and that he thought I was going to just drink socially,...

Ruby's Alcoholism is Destroying My Best Friend 
My name is Brooke, I am thirteen years old. Ruby is my best friend's mother. She is an alcoholic and has been for a very long time. Longer than I have ...

My Mother is a Drug Addict, My Father an Alcoholic: My Struggle Because of My Parents 
I'm 17 years old and have a brother who is almost 14. My parents got divorced when I was 7. My father immediately remarried and had two other children;...

25 and Struggling ... An Alcholic at a Young Age 
Hello everyone! My name is Sarah J. I am an alcoholic. I would like to say I'm in recovery - but recovery is not playing out perfectly for me.

I went ...

My Ex Is An Alcoholic: Don't Get Sucked In Like I Did. Be Happy and Healthy. 
I started dating a beautiful, smart, well spoken woman a little over a year ago. Some red flags started to show .... odd behaviour on the phone, a few ...

A Daughter's Nightmare: A Mother's Depression and Alcoholism 
Hi. I'm not sure where to begin.

My mom was always a party girl when she was younger. No one had ever suspected anything apparently. We moved many ...

Still Trying to Figure Out If He Has An Alcohol Problem: A Wife's Story 
Hi. My name is Monica. I am 27 years old. I am an addict. Not an active addict but an addict non the less. I am 8 years clean. I did cocaine, Ecstasy and ...

The Other Woman: How Alcoholism Has Ruined My Marriage 
I met my husband 30 years ago. I was 17. He was 19. He was in the US Navy and he drank beer. I didn't care at 17. In fact, it was what he could do for ...

How Do I Let Go of Being a Mother? My Son's Heroin Addiction is Killing Me 
My son is now 26. He has been through rehab, detox, AA, NA, sober living homes, rescues, hospitals, jail, jobs and homes more than you could ever imagine....

Husband Addicted to Crack Cocaine: My Success His Failure ...Tearing Us Apart 
First I want to say I have personally been addicted to crack cocaine and I beat the addiction on my own ... I guess I am one of the lucky ones. I have ...

Kitty's Alcoholism Story: The Sleeping Lion 
The horror of it all. The complete and utter devastation and gut retching car crash of a life. I'm ashamed to write these pages but know in my heart that ...

Jim's Alcoholism Story: I Know I Will Die If I Drink More 
I was born in 1964. My childhood was an unhappy one because my mother was very ill and my father who was an ex-boxer with an alcohol problem who was very ...

I Was Let Go Again From Another Job: How Alcohol is Destroying My Life 
Hi. I am 28 yrs old and am sure anyone reading this has read something similar. Not that my story is so exceptional but since I was let go on Friday May ...

How My Boyfriend's Addiction Started After He Got Back From Serving in Iraq 
I've been with my fiancé for almost three years now. He was infantry in the army. He got blown up in Iraq and ever since he's been addicted to pain pills....

Had Enough: Sick of My Life of Alcoholism 
I have been drinking alcohol since I was 18 years old. Of course, back then, 2 beers and I was drunk. Now, I drink 1, 2 bottles of wine a night. I try ...

Update on Greg & Lori 
Lori finished up her prison sentence (for felony DUI's, domestic violence, parole violation, etc.) in March. Her plan was to get drunk when released on ...

Get Me Out of This Painkiller Prison: Sami's Story 
My name is Sami. I'm 27 years old and an internationally collected artist. I'm also a mortuary cosmetologist and former Hooters model. I grew up in Savannah,...

How Alcoholism Destroyed My Marriage 
The word alcoholism was for other people or families - we were not dysfunctional. That is the denial of the disease. The truth is alcohol treacherously ...

Adoring Mother of 3 Heroin Addicts Who Are Now In Recovery 
Hello, I am a married 46 year old mother with 3 sons (29,27,25) who all became heroin addicts. I have pulled two of my sons from places no one should ever ...

Road to Redemption: My Journey From Drug Addiction To Sobriety 
By the time I was fifteen years of age, I was a drug addict. My life has been a series of ups and downs since the very beginning. The knowing of drugs ...

"Grass in the Shed:" How My Addiction To Drugs Started ... 
I remember it all started with one cigarette about a year and five months ago, I still smoke cigarettes to this day. When summer time came and my best ...

In Love with an Addict and Am Having a Hard Time Making a Healthy Decision for Myself ... 
My brother at the young age of 15 got addicted to heroin and other sorts of opiates and hallucinogens.

Two years later he got help and became clean,...

Husband is a Recovering Cocaine Addict/Alcoholic and Wants to Come Home.  
I have never been on a site like this before, but I am struggling with my "non-relationship" with my husband. He has been clean for a year now, for 3 ...

Young and Free: John's Story of Recovery From Drug Addiction 
My name is John and I am an alcoholic and a raging drug addict. I'm seventeen years old and only used for about 2 and a half years, but that was more than ...

5 Weeks After Getting Sober, A Major Depression Crash & Plans for Suicide. 
I rode the classic "pink cloud" for 5 weeks after getting sober but when I encountered external emotional "triggers" I couldn't deal with, suicide became ...

My Brother's Drug Addiction - and How it Affected Me ... 
Since I was 1 year old my brother has been a drug addict. He was 15 when he started and now I am 15. I don't remember a lot, some say because I was young,...

My Vicious Cycle of Alcoholism: From a Life on the Streets to Sobriety and Freedom 
My drinking lead me down a path of self destruction and torment, jails, prison and eventually homeless and living on the streets.
After losing everything....

Many Chances, Same Results - My Struggle With Alcohol 
I am going on 10 years of marriage and I love my wife and kids more than anything in the world yet I still drink. I am not violent, I am very involved ...

The Tragic Story of My Brother's Drug Addiction 
My brother is a druggie; and it's sad because he's been arrested so many times I can't even cry anymore - it's just another part of the day. One time he ...

Greg & Loris' Alcohol Addiction Story - The Insanity of Addiction at Play 
I'm 55 now and have gone back and forth between drinking and tenuous sobriety since 1981. My drinking & the associated behavior has resulted in the destruction ...

How Drugs Ruined My Family 
When I was 18 I met what I thouht was the love of my life. He fell for me hard and me for him. We stayed together for 8 years, have a 3 year old daughter ...

To Fix or to Finish? My Seven Years With a Drug Addict ... 
About seven years ago I fell in love with a homeless, jobless and hopeless drug addict. I knew what I was getting into but love is blind. Our relationship ...

Don't Let Anyone Tell You Marijuana isn't Addictive 
Don't let anyone ever tell you that marijuana isn't addictive or that it doesn't ruin lives. Years ago, I was coming out of an abusive relationship and ...

Hitting The Bottom - The Crash and Burn Philosophy and My Daughter's Harrowing Tale of Addiction to Heroin 
I am struggling terribly with the hitting bottom approach. I also have a daughter who is an IV Heroin user. She turns 21 today. What a birthday!

She ...

Lost to Alcohol - How It's Destroyed My Family 
I am sitting here crying about a loss, shaking because I am so isolated, I was arrested several weeks ago for domestic violence, when I was released from ...

Ron's Remorse and Addiction Recovery Story 
My story begins just like many others born in the 50's. I got caught up in the madness of the late 60's with all the drugs available on the streets. Marijuana,...

Crystal Meth Has Ruined My Relationship 
My boyfriend of 5 years has been a meth addict since I meet him. We have a beautiful daughter together. Life is good when he is home and sober. He is home ...

My Husband's Alcoholism Has Destroyed our Marriage 
Hi there. I've been married for 13 yrs now and my husband as always battled with drink. In February last year he was admitted to hospital and he was diagnosed ...

I Beat two of the Worst Addictions ( Heroin & Crystal Meth ) but now a Medication my Doctor gave me has Knocked me back down to the floor and this time I'm Dying but still can't get up. 
I will first start off by introducing myself, my name is Nicole and I have been a struggling addict for the last five years of my thirty-two that I have ...

Amber's Story: My Parents Are Addicts and are now Addicted to Heroin 
I am 18 years old and ever since I can remember my father was always addicted to something - alcohol, gambling, cocaine, and pot. He has always smoked ...

Five Years Sober – How I’ve Done It 
I'd just like to share a few ideas as to how I managed to recently reach the five year mark of my new life in sobriety. This is not intended to brag about ...

Meharun's Story: My Husband is a Drug Addict 
I got married when I was 19 to a 30 year old. Falling in love was wonderful then. He was a great person. We married despite the difference in religious ...

My Life with an Alcoholic ...... 
The pattern just keeps going on and on. I must be brave and try to harden my heart to survive. I have called the attorney for the 5th time, my appointment ...

Shane's Alcoholism Story: I Think I Could Be an Alcoholic or en Route 
I am 21 years old, and I have been abusing alcohol from the age of 14/15. I come from a broken home. My dad was an alcoholic and a drug addict. He walked ...

How My Addiction to Cocaine and Alcohol Left Me on the Streets 
I was brought up in a good home and I always said I'd never do drugs, alcohol or cigarettes. Lesson number one: Never say never. In my 20's I moved to ...

Losing My Family Due To My Boyfriend's Cocaine Addiction 
I have been in a relationship with my boyfriend for three years now and we have been battling his addiction to cocaine and alcohol ever since.

I thought ...

Alida's Story: Living With My Husband's Alcoholism 
I have been married for 17 years and we have 5 children. My husband has been drinking for years but its only during the past year that his drinking has ...

My Husband's Alcoholism is Tearing Our Family Apart: Should I Leave Him? 
I am sitting here crying at 2:00 in the morning. I just finished "scream" texting him for the last hour to get home and like always he is ignoring my ...

Paula's Story: I Feel Like I Could Lose Everything Because Of My Drinking 
I am a 32 year old mature student studying nursing, have a fabulous 5 year old daughter, a wonderful boyfriend and home that we share together.

However,...

The Dance of Addiction 
My daughter has been battling addiction from the age of 15. She is 20 now. I belong to Toastmasters and decided it was time to write a speech telling my ...

Steve's Story: Alcohol is Killing Me 
Alcohol has been my companion for the best part of 20 years now. My relationship with alcohol started off as a casual fling, like it does with most people ...

A Horrible Legacy of Alcoholism and Addiction in my Family 
I am 42 years old and I come from an Irish family with a long history of alcoholism and addiction. Unfortunately in the past 2 years I have lost a father ...

Barbara's Alcoholism Story: On The Road to Recovery ... Three Weeks and Counting  
My life was going off the rails quickly. I had stopped taking my anti-depressants for mild bipolar disorder when I was on holiday and felt well.

Then ...

End of the Rope: How My Husband's Addiction Is Ruining our Marriage 
We met working in a bar/restaurant together and if anyone's had any experience with that, well servers and bartenders are generally a young, partying bunch....

My 23 Year Old Son is Destroying His Life with Drinking - 7 Years Now & Counting 
My 23 year old son started drinking from the age of 15.(so far as we know, could have been earlier)

My daughter (now 28, a college grad, wonderful ...

Gloria's Alcohol Addiction Recovery Story: Two Years Sober - and so Far so Good  
On the one hand it feels like yesterday that I was leaving treatment - and beginning my alcohol addiction recovery process - and on the other hand it feels ...

Katherine's Drug Addiction Story: How My Boyfriend's Addiction to Heroin Almost Destroyed Me 
Most ‘straight’ people don’t fall in love with drug addicts or if they do, are wise enough not to pursue their passion.

It took me a year to reassess ...

My Teenage Daughter's Fight With Drug Addiction  
Imagine your life as a circle, with a dot depicting each part of your life – your work, family, friends, schools, interests and hobbies. Now imagine, just ...

I Survived Drug Addiction - Amy 
My Drug Addiction Story. Perhaps I felt I was never good enough because I wasn’t a boy as my father constantly pointed out. Maybe it had something to do ...

The Mother of my Fiance is a Drug Addict.. Her Role in His Life Could Cause Us To Break Up 
My fiance and I have been together for almost 3 years. We have already planned our wedding for next year. We have also started looking at houses together ...

I Lost My Entire Life to Dope: Living the Nightmare of my ex-Husband's Addiction to Heroin and Meth 
My ex husband Bob (all names changed) - smoked our entire life. We were married 17 years and together for 19. HE was an ok husband. Good provider but kind ...

How I was Addicted to Sleeping Pills. Seven Years Clean Now 
When I was 16, I had problems sleeping and asked a doctor friend for help. She gave me sleeping pills, which worked well for a week, and when these stopped ...

Caroline's Alcoholism Story: I'm Not Sure I Can Put Up With My Husband's Drinking Anymore 
My name is Caroline and have a wonderful husband and three beautiful children! Alcohol has detroyed my husband and all of our relationship.

I have ...

Jake's Story: Alcoholic or Drug Addict? I don't really know ... 
Am I an alcoholic? Possibly. Am I a drug addict? Probably. All I know is that my life is a mess right now and if I don't get myself together I'm probably ...

Mike's Story: I Want To Quit Drinking Bad. 
Well I sit here at 4AM can't sleep because I drank today and fell bad mentally.

I usually drink 2-3 times a week, but when I drink its always too much....

C-P's Drug Addiction and Alcoholism Story 
You may have read about my drug and alcoholism addiction story already on the 'About Page', but in case you haven't, and in the spirit of sharing and wanting ...

Lisa's Story - How Mum Finally Beat Her Alcoholism 
I'd like to tell you about how my Mum got treated for her alcoholism.

Mum had been an alcoholic for many years - but of course she never thought of ...

I Almost Died From a Drug Overdose 
Wednesday, my foster parents left to go camping for about 5 days. My drug dealer got a hold of a pill called green ladies, main ingredients meth and MDMA ...

SH's Alcohol Abuse: The Father My Son Never Got To Meet  Not rated yet
I myself abused alcohol for a time in my college years, and when drunk had an accident (not in a car) that left me with a spinal cord injury and permanently ...

Rising Above Addiction: I Am the Only 'Straight' Person In My Family  Not rated yet
Stories of addiction come in many ways. Some come from the addicts themselves and weather they overcame it. Many overcame it and many have not. Mine is ...

My Brother's Drug Addiction is Tearing our Family Apart  Not rated yet
Hello my name is A.J. I'm 21 years old and my brother has a drug problem. My brother's name is Ricky and he is 27 years old and his drug problem has progressed ...

Nancy's Drug Addiction Story: Finding Hope in Recovery  Not rated yet
Hello Everyone,

I would like to share my experience with anyone who believes they are lost in their addiction. Seven years ago, I was methadone, heroin,...

Russ's Drug and Alcohol Addictive Lifestyle ... Now in Recovery  Not rated yet
Hello every one ... I'm just as crazy as you look and feel - and that's crazy. I wanna start off by saying I am in recovery and hope to remain in the sober ...