Addiction Recovery Stories

I am gratefull to the contributors to the following pages for sharing their stories in the hope that they will provide experience strength and hope to the readers.

• There's No Mountain Too High
  
  I drank for twenty years alcoholically. During the last seven years of that time, I "sped my bottom" by adding prescription drugs, mostly diet pills and Valium, but some street drugs too. I had a Mount Everest of problems.
• Allen's Story
  
  By November 1999 I was a Bank Manager and an alcoholic and drug addict. This in itself was no mean achievement; I’d been working towards it since 1984 when, at the age of 14, I began abusing solvents.