Journey to Recovery
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Journey to Recovery
By
Terri Evans
My sobriety date from alcohol and drugs is February 3, 2012, but it was not my first sober date. Relapse is not a requirement but as we say in the program of recovery, we do not shoot our wounded.
What it was like……I first preface to say alcoholism is not prevalent in my family history, there is one great uncle, who my grandmother tells me died on skid row. We can only surmise it was a result of untreated alcoholism. Some say the disease is inherent, and yes, we label this a disease that must be treated as any other disease. For alcoholism is an allergy that once we put that into our system, we have no idea where it will take us, and we CANNOT stop.