April 2018

Sober at 14

Young and confused, he stayed close to some old-timers and his life got so much better

When I got sober 31 years ago at the age of 14, I needed AA badly. I was the youngest patient in the rehab where I’d been court-ordered to complete a recovery program for adolescents. The first things they handed me at check-in were the Big Book and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions.

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