Originally Posted by
MuddlingThru82 
"I'm pretty involved with a group at church, and I like to read a lot." -- generally my response except I add in the easy excuse of kids' soccer games and the timesuckers my boys are :-)
My closest friends at work know, no one else does. Like it or not, I work in a very judgmental profession.
And I guarantee you some of those judgmental people in the judgmental professions are themselves drug addicts or alcoholics themselves or have family members who are.
We're not that unique. There's more people than we realize who know that this is a disease and that if we've now got a track record of sobriety that addiction is no longer a liability.
In many cases it's an asset cause the recovering person is gonna want to be a good worker cause they want to make up for lost time. They're also more likely to be sincere and honest.