Robert B. - Sober 17 Years

Originally from Detroit, Robert grew up in what many would consider to be a “normal’ family in which alcohol and dysfunctional behavior were largely absent. Nonetheless, Robert found alcohol at 16 and was immediately lured to its magical properties that relieved much of the anxiety and loneliness he experienced during his teenage years. Though he made it through high school and later college with few consequences from his mostly social drinking, his early twenties were marked by increasing use and then misuse of alcohol. As he became addicted to alcohol, with all its consequences, Robert rapidly found that drinking was controlling more...