Hello world! Wow! Eternally grateful to even have the ability to tell all of you my story!! The last two decades of my life have been nothing short of a mess and a struggle that almost took my life. I am here today to tell you since January 23, 2015, I haven't found it necessary...

I had always felt as if something were missing, my earliest memories consist of a desperate longing for something, someone or someplace that was just not there. This void could never be filled, it always became hungrier and hungrier the more I tried to feed it with external...

Dylan Bradley Pearson, 18 and my only child was using heroin. By the time I found out, heroin had already gotten its grip on him. It was the beginning of my worst nightmare. Over the next year, he had gained 2 felony charges due to his heroin addiction. He was in 3 different...

Hi everyone, my name is Betsy and I am a woman living in long term recovery. My last drink and drug were on November 15th, 1991. Looking at that date can be overwhelming for me. I am in awe that I have not had to take a drink or drug in over 25 years. On one hand it seems like...

I am a mother of an adult child who struggles with addiction. I am a voice of pain, a voice of love, a voice of hope, a voice of fear. A voice of a mother who has spent more time looking for her son to be someone else rather than seeing him for who he truly is. ... He almost...

okay, here it goes.... I am a drug addict. Scratch that I am a meth addict. Over the last few years, that has been a big part of my life and I'm quite ashamed that I have let my addiction take over every aspect of my life. It has helped me lose everything I once held dear....my...

They told me I would never get my kids back! I was 36 years old, mom of 3 and on Halloween my boyfriend of 2 years asked me if I wanted to try something. I said sure I was then introduced to a feeling I never even knew existed - peace, happiness, excitement and love! Heroin I...

The worst day of Brad McGahey’s life was the day a judge decided to spare him from prison. McGahey was 23 with dreams of making it big in rodeo, maybe starring in his own reality TV show. With a 1.5 GPA, he’d barely graduated from high school. He had two kids and mounting child...

Born in Athens, I grew up in Greece, not knowing what my father did for a living. It would not be until several years after we had moved to the United States that he would tell us that he worked for the CIA, and that he had moved us from Europe when political turmoil threatened...