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May 1995

Just Give Me Something to Stop the Pain

This "pure" alcoholic found herself drinking cough syrup and hooked on pills

My sobriety date was May 17, 1981. Through going to two meetings or more a day, doing all the Steps, reading the Big Book so much I could quote from it, and doing lots of AA service work, my life had changed dramatically.

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