“DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH DRUGS or don’t you?” I sat in the personnel director’s office thinking about what to say. Images from my years of drug using flashed through my mind. How funny everything seemed the first time I got stoned and how I loved that feeling. I had flashes of getting loaded…

I remember seeing my sister being taken away on a stretcher while she was overdosing on LSD and thinking that I never wanted to be like that. That happened when I was in the eighth grade. By the end of the ninth grade I had started to smoke pot and drink wine to feel accepted…

How could I be an addict? My life is great. I live in a very good area of Los Angeles, drive a nice sports car, have a good job, pay all my bills, and have a wonderful family. This is not the kind of person I grew up believing an addict was. So I smoke…

I am a recovering pothead . If it had not been for the MA program online I could not introduce myself as “recovering” because, you see, when I found MA Online there were no MA meetings at all in the state where I live! I was recently talking to my online sponsor and she suggested…

I swore I would never become an alcoholic like my father. But I started drinking alcohol at sixteen years old and smoking pot at seventeen. I remember stealing drugs from the veterinarian I worked for, and taking those pills even though I had no idea what they would do. The pills had no noticeable effect.…

The ’80s were a great time to be a kid : middle class suburbia, rock concerts, open school campuses. This was the atmosphere in my hometown when I started smoking pot. My family had just relocated to California from upstate New York, and we moved into a nice suburb of Los Angeles. My older sister…

I was the last person in my circle of friends to smoke dope. I was afraid it would lead to other drugs, so I stayed away from it until I was fifteen. I loved the way I felt when I finally tried it, and smoked it whenever anyone had it. After moving out on my…