Hello, my name is Richard. I would like to thank my Lord and savior Jesus Christ for giving me the strength to over come my obsession with alcohol. I would also like to thank the legal system for helping me and giving me a wake-up call because if it wasn't for losing my childern I think honslty think I would still be drinking and getting nowhere in my life. I was just killing myself with alcohol. I would aslo like to thank my parents for haveing faith in me and my friends too. Every time they sa...   read more »

My name is Eric Y. I'm based in Knoxville, TN. I moved here from Tuscaloosa, AL because I had nothing left. I was at the end of my last run and I wanted to die if that was going to be all there was to my life; nothingness. I moved to Knoxville under the homeless veterans program. Here is a very brief history about myself. I had the tendency to be an alcoholic/addict before I ever took my first drink. I hated myself, it seemed like I was a failure at everything and I thought that everything in my...   read more »

I had been arrested for the 20th time and was facing six years in prison. The thing was I had been in this position before. For me, I would have to say it was the accumulation of years of abusing alcohol and drugs and the associated consequences and pain that finally got me to take a look at my life without all those rationalizations and justifications. I requested from my counselor in prison to get some counseling for my problem. I went to a program in prison called Merle Cooper program. It...   read more »