"In jail it was arranged for me to go into treatment. My brief stint in the military qualified me for a veterans’ program. It was there that I was introduced to Narcotics Anonymous. I am so grateful for 'H&I' meetings, because that’s how I was introduced to the program that would save this addict’s life."

"My last day of narcotics use or drugs of any type, I had just fixed and two policemen got me spread-eagled on a chainlink fence that I was trying to get over. I became sober and clean immediately. Everything became very clear and I didn’t want to die that way. Something clicked on in my mind and I thought, 'It doesn’t have to be this way.'"

“I had no ID; I was found dying in an alley somewhere. The doctors told me afterwards that the coma was the kind people usually don’t wake up from. No one had visited me. No one cared. Full force, I felt the total emptiness in the heart that comes from addiction. I had nothing for a life. I couldn’t even remember my name.”