I just wanted to take the time to thank God for helping me through day one of my recovery. Yesterday was easy, but I know that this will get much harder. You see, I am a musician, and I play in bars 4-5 nights out of the week. Many of the bars give free drinks to the musicians as a perk or as a supplement to the low wages they sometimes pay. I am hoping that someone might read this and have some suggestions for me.

When I tried to quit about ten years ago, my psychologist at...

I have been suffering from alcohol and drug addiction for 14 years. I am 30 years old, and this past year I realized that one more year would make it roughly half of my life that I have spent relying on alcohol and drugs to soften the pain of life. I was introduced to alcohol at age 12 by my father, and this was not your typical 'take a sip of my beer' type introduction. I drank so many Jack and Cokes that I'm not sure how many I had, and I ended up puking all over the place. My dad made me...