April 2019 | Relapse

In & out

After suffering for years in the revolving door, he finally found the answer outside himself

My story is different from others in that I came to AA at 16 years old and did 90 percent of my drinking after that. I had 11 months of sobriety in 1983 and 14 months in 2002. I went to treatment 17 times and have been in and out of AA too many times to count. I was a revolving-door fixture in AA for a heartbreaking 30 years. The people of AA helped keep me alive long enough to live. 

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