Voices for Recovery
Stories
Across the country, people in recovery are celebrating their successes and sharing them with others in an effort to educate the public about treatment, how it works, for whom, and why. Because these successes often go unnoticed by the broader population, Voices for Recovery provides a vehicle for people to share their recovery stories.
To date,
25
recovery stories have been submitted in 2009:
Pam Day cradled her 19-year-old daughter...
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.
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.
I came to Minnesota back in 2006 to go to treatment. I was addicted to crystal meth. It began with smoking from a pipe and had just begun to lead to intravenous use. I went through the Pride Institute in Eden Prairie, MN once and stayed sober for two months...
As someone living in recovery, I know that music can be an outlet for people’s feelings...
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...
I am a person in long-term recovery, and have not used drugs or alcohol since June 25, 2006. I feel reconnected...
I started drinking at 12 and managed to not cross the imaginary line of no return until I was about 18...
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...
I am in long-term recovery, meaning that I haven’t used opiates, alcohol, and other drugs for more than 20 years...
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...
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...
I no longer do the things I used to when I was obsessed with using. I have learned to respect myself and others...
I am one of the luckiest people in the world! It is truly how I feel...
I’m a person in long-term recovery, meaning that I haven’t had a drink or a drug since September 6, 2003...
What brought me into this field was what brought so many of us in, a personal relationship with addiction...
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...
I was born in 1960 into a blue-collar lower income family on Long Island twenty-five miles from New York City...
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...
For as long as I can remember I've always felt misunderstood, not a part of, and like an alien from another planet...
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...
I was born in New York and have lived in Indiana for the past two years...
My name is maria moya and I am in recovery. I have been working at the MARS PROJECT since 2006...
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...
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...