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My name is Althea and I’m an addict. Life was hard for me growing up and I struggled to feel like I fit in. I started using as a preteen, with more socially acceptable drugs but I was quickly swept away by the escape that the less socially acceptable drugs

Living my best life and recovery every time I come to the fellowship and stay clean my life always improves every single time. So I did 90 and 90 and I got a Home Group got a sponsor worked the 12 steps do service work. Life is good. Keep coming

I went to treatment because I couldn’t stop using drugs on my own, no matter what I tried. In treatment I was taken to my first Narcotics Anonymous meeting. I was amazed at what I found there; the room was filled with people who were telling my same story of

I started using when I was very young. Both of my parents are addicts and had no recovery so when I was younger, drugs were just a part of my life and it seemed natural. As time went on, it just got worse and worse until I was completely broken.

I’d attended many meetings before I got clean but would not try complete abstinence. I looked for the easier, softer way for years and found nothing but a progressing addiction. The meeting I attended that made all the difference was in 1987 at a rehab . It was chaired by