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How Does a Loner from a "Perfect" Childhood Find Recovery? | Ben O.
His brother’s illness kept their parents at the hospital, so at 12 Ben O. was home alone and done listening. By 17 he had tried heroin and left school.
From Stolen Childhood to Stolen Sobriety: Heidi’s 20-Year Addiction War | Heidi Z.
At seven she drank the sweet wine left in everyone’s Passover glasses and felt the knot in her stomach go. It took Heidi Z. until 42 to say the word aloud.
ADOPTED & LOST | Battling ADDICTION, IDENTITY, SELF-HARM and REDEMPTION
Five sober years left him just as dishonest and angry. A book about adoption, and one drive he should never have made, changed what recovery meant to him.
ADOPTED Father ARRESTED | GAMBLING, DRUGS & TRAUMA | Completed EDUCATION & Helping Others
Police drew guns over a used car whose paperwork was wrong, and a night in jail turned his drinking. Sober, he lived on an air mattress and a $50 bicycle.
ADOPTED FUNCTIONING ALCOHOLIC FATHER | Discovers His INNER HERO & Turns His LIFE Around
Told he was adopted at a family dinner, Bob Wick drank for thirty years and failed four rehabs before one book broke him open. How he finally got sober.
OVERDOSED and REVIVED with 7 Narcan Shots - Coming BACK from Death’s Door to Recovery
His grandmother raised him in a town of 800 people. Years later the residents of the building where he worked the door were the ones who got him into treatment.
ADOPTED at Birth & Sober at 18 | how AA PISSED in his drink
He would help a friend hunt for a missing wallet that was already in his own backpack. His family finally gave him a choice: the locks get changed, or rehab.
Adopted, Disconnected, and Lonely
Her first drink arrived in an empty Hellmann’s mayonnaise jar filled with stolen whiskey. Years later a manager told her to read one book, and it undid her.
Adopted, Prescribed Ritalin at 14, and Survived a Near-Death Experience
On Thanksgiving Eve he put his father’s car into a telephone pole and climbed out the sunroof with live wires overhead. He kept drinking for four more years.