David B. - Sober 30 Years

In David's childhood home, there was one basic rule about alcohol: Don’t let it interfere with your household chores. Lacking any other parental edicts, David started drinking at age 8 and was a regular alcohol user by age 11. Alcohol’s “magical” effect of intoxication helped David cope with both the dysfunction in his family, as well as the intense feelings of loneliness that were fed by the insecurities of moving every three years. By the time he was in college, the Jekyll and Hyde effects of drinking were in plain view to everyone except himself. David wondered whether the label of “alco...