Dan D.
"Being in recovery is so freeing. I don’t have crazy thoughts. I don’t have to act out on my emotions, I can set boundaries."
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Virginia V.
"I would encourage anyone struggling with addiction to give themselves a break."
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Keri B.
“I've learned if I just concentrate on myself, the rest falls into place.”
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CARLOS T.
"Life continues to get better, and it’s all because I continued to work the program."
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SARAH K.
“For people who are struggling, even people who are in recovery, just hold on. It does get better!”
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MICHAEL A
"I had never used music as a tool in recovery before, now I do every day."
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JOSIAH M.
“The power of love is real—it’s the most powerful thing on the planet and I’m so grateful to have been open to it.”
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VICKI Q.
“Active addiction was me holding on to any hope that I could use drugs.”
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MARISA D.
“Being in active addiction is like your own self-made personal hell.”
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YESSICA L.
“It can be harder to love someone who's using than it is to be the one using.”
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ALEC K.
"I was just trying to put a bandaid on a broken bone."
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BRANDON W.
“I didn't see myself ever having a life worth living.”
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COLLEEN THOMAS
"I was tied down by the drug, chasing the dragon."
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DREW
"I started idolizing people that died from drug addiction and suicide."
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CHRIS K.
“Nobody knew where I was, but I used my card to buy a gun.”
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MARIE S.
"I couldn't take any more people down with me."
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CHRIS GATES
"I found myself sitting with a gun in one hand and a syringe in another, trying to decide which one to use."
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TERRY B.
“I thought ‘I think this is how it ends. I’m gonna die like this.”
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JASON AMATO
“My family and friends were scared of me.”
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PARKER SUMMERS
"I’m just going to get messed up until I can find anything else to do."
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ZACHARY BISHOP
"I was slowly killing myself."
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RICHARD WALL
"I played a complete victim role in my own mental health"
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CJ ROBERTS
“I hadn’t realized how much I actually hated myself.”
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ASHLEY ARMSTRONG
"You can be scared and still make the move to get better."
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JILLIAN OWENS
"I was questioning why I existed at a very young age."
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KASI ROY
"I thought, "If I die, I don’t really care."
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RYAN TOTH
"I was dead spiritually, and I felt like I was going to die physically"
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JOEY GRANT
"I feel like my spirit was broken."
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JOSEPH PIGNATELLI JR.
"The only time I wasn’t looking to use was when I was unconscious."
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KAYLIN TURPIN
“I kept finding myself isolated and wanting to die”
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PAM CREA
"It seemed like I was loving the drugs more than being a mom"
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LISA DEANGELIS
"You have hopes and dreams for your child and you realize that they may never happen."
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MELISSA GARY
"It took me away from everything and everybody I loved."
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JASON CABELLO
"I didnt even care that I had no future other than living in a bathroom."
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JORDAN GUTHRIE
“It was a waking nightmare.”
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ADAM DAVID
"The idea of coming back just to do the same thing all over again was horrible."
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JAMIE LINVER
"I had never been so afraid of my own daughter."
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DAMIAN RAMIREZ
"It is possible to find a new way to live and to stop using, even though it seems impossible."
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SARA YOSSEIF
"I just became this empty person that I didn’t know anymore"
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ABIGAIL DORFMAN
"I couldn’t even recognize who Abby was anymore. There was no me left."
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BLAKE COHEN
“…looking back, it was awful and I was totally lost.”
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DAVID G.
"I’m not a slave to a substance"
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CHANDLER HENDERSHOTT
"I knew I either had to die, or try to get clean."
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RYAN O'CONNOR
“By the end, it was like living the worst nightmare you’ve ever had”
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SEHAR RYAN
"My advice is to hold on, pain ends."
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JONAH BROOKS
“I realized that I was close to death.”
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NICOLE WALCK
"If I can get sober, anybody can get sober, and the excuses need to stop."
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CARLY H.
"That was what I had been waiting for my whole life- to get sober."
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DOC MCGHEE
"I could spend all the time in the world building their career, but trying to save them as a person- it's too hard"
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ERIKA MURPHY
"I really got to see myself and what I had done to my family; and that’s somebody that I never wanted to be."
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JOSEM LANTIGUA
"I realized that the life I was leading wasn’t any way to live."
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BETH SULLIVAN JAWITZ
"It was a habit I couldn’t break and it made me suicidal every day."
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ROB LOHMAN
“…alcohol pretty much became my master when I was 14 years old”
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MICHAEL DEMCHACK
"…because alone, no one is stronger than addiction."
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NOAH GIOVANNINI-DOLAN
"I had my first overdose when I was 14."
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