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Deborah Smith's Story
I knew at the age of 28 years that I had a problem with alcohol. I didn't listen to the concerns raised by friends and continued to drink. In my mid-30s I had a period where I was obsessed with losing weight. I started using otc weightloss medications. This along with drinking allowed me to lose significant weight. I stopped everything when I got pregnant with my first son, but started again after he was born. He was really sick and I thought it was my use all those years that caused him to be so ill. I kept drinking, gave up the amphetamines and six years later got pregnant again. I stopped drinking until the second son was born, my marriage was falling apart and I couldn't keep it together. I went back to school to start on a PhD - in substance abuse. quit again for awhile. Then my husband of 11 years decided he liked someone better than me and left. I crawled into a bottle for about a year. It didnt show at first, but I was missing more events and going to work hung over. I finally walked into a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous on Friday the 13 of September 2002 and have not had a need to drink since.
Mason, Michigan
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