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May 2008

PO BOX 1980

Reaching out for help

I'm in a state prison in Virginia because of my constant drinking and drug use. I've been on a path of destruction for over thirty years. Soon, I'll be forty-seven years old. For the past fifteen years I've been trying to get help for my alcoholism, thinking that the help would come to me. But if I had gone after the help myself, instead of waiting for it, I probably wouldn't be writing this letter.

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