"So, um you know what I didn't have or what I had lost I have regained."

Recorded November 25, 2018 Archived November 25, 2018 02:27 minutes
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Me-
So um what was one of the things that uh made you change like your decision, like change your ways from being to go into recovery?
Him-
Well in the spring of 1986. I was having a bad time um hold a job. I could not sustain a relationship. I was the strange my family and uh it really it wasn't my decision at the time.
It was more of um, I had committed a small crime working for a family business and I was just covered and I had really no options other than you go into treatment in-patient treatment. So that's where my recovery began.
Me-
Can you remember why or how you started to misuse?
Him-
Yeah, when I was a um teenager, it started with drinking, smoking cigarettes and drinking with friends. And when I got to high school when I was in tenth grade, I started with marijuana. Um, you know kind of seldomly then it became an everyday thing but it'll of 10th grade all up until my senior year of high school and I was expelled from high school three days before graduation for violation of the school of alcohol policy and I had a problem, problem by then and I wanted to cut when I went to college or tried other drugs that just really progressed things, So but it really started knowing about 14 years old.

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  • John Doe
  • Danielle Ayala

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