It was 1999 when I first went to addiction treatment. I think I was drinking alot, smoking pot and snorting cocaine. While I knew I had a problem i really didn’t think it bad enough to need addiction treatment, so I left after seven days.

Well things got worse, I ended up shooting heroin and was arrested for burglary and did a year with four years probation remaining. While I should have stayed in treatment the first time, I guess this was the wakeup call I needed.

I finished my second stint of addiction treatment in 2006 and this time completed the addiction treatment program and went on to a halfway house in Florida. Florida is not a bad place to go to addiction treatment by the way. You can do the math as I am almost two years clean and sober.