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Share the power of long-term recovery. If you are in recovery, a family member, friend or ally of someone in recovery, we want to hear your recovery story!
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Voice of the Recovery Community Award
Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) is the recipient of The Joel Hernandez Voice of the Recovery Community Award!
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Rose Ann King
Radcliff, KY
My name is Rose Ann and I currently live in Radcliff, KY
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Butch Jamieson
Clinton, MD
My name is Butch Jamieson. This is my story. more...
Robert & Alicia Happoldt
Enterprise , AL
I am 47 years old and my wife is 46, we were more…
Elaine W.
Lexington , SC
I remember my first experience with alcohol like it more…
Barbara Nicholson-Brown
Scottsdale , AZ
With over 15 years of continuous sobriety I am more…
Tim Powers
La Crosse , WI
I am a recovering alcoholic going on three years sober more…
Kay Curtis
Lexington , KY
My name is Kay Curtis. I am 47 years old and more…
Sherri Roff
Freehold, NY
I have been clean and sober for 17 years. If it more…
Susan Merrill
Little Neck, NY
Hello, I am recovering prescription drug addict. more…
Lachelle Edwards
Pennslyvania
Today I am 33 years old and I have 10 years clean. more...
Rebecca Brooks
London , Ontario, Canada
I am a forty-six year strong woman. I prefer to be called more...
Dana Moulton
Marlboro, MA
I am honored to be here today with a group of people working more...
Ben Bass
El Paxo , TX
In February of 1987 I was getting ready to attend a sales more...
Frank Smith
Woodbury , NJ
Frank Smith grew up in a middle-class household in more...
Gale Durant
Norwich , NY
I began to drink at the age of 12. I grew up in the alcoholic more...
Sharon Dembinski
Webster , MA
I have many roles in my life; mother of 5, wife to my husband more...
Kerri Bernstein
New York , NY
Just miles from the Lebanese border lies a beautiful village more...
Houston M. Scott
Richmond , VA
My name is Houston Scott. I am addict whose was hopelessly more...
Dan Duncan
St. Louis , MO
My story of addiction disease is not unlike many, many others. more...
Leslie Miller
Newport , RI
I wasn’t done yet! I was having a great time in my cocktail more...
Jim Hendrickson
After thirty years in recovery and being told I had to give it away more…
Fawn Dorman
Chico , CA
When I was a little girl and someone asked what I wanted to be more...
Laurie Kamansky
Greenfield , MA
Being a parent of a teenager is hard enough, so I am extra more…
Lori Spain
Midlothian , VA
I attended my first Faces/Voices seminar last Oct. in more...
Myrna Ulrich
Cross Plains, WI
My name is Myrna, and I am the Mother of a recovering meth more...
Rhea McVicker
Beltsville , MD
In 1997, I lost my 22 year-old son Nick to the disease of more...
Johnny Allem
Washington , DC
I started drinking when I was 22 years old. I grew up a more…
Dodie Murphy
Today is my 18th anniversary of sobriety. I came into mutual more...
Virginia Lee-Anderson
Virginia Lee-Anderson remembers the day her dark secret was more...
Mike Barry
Louisville , KY
My name is Mike Barry. I am in recovery and have been for more...
Jane A. Hull
I am sober for 25 years as of June, 2004. I have experienced more...
Shirley Roberts
My name is Shirley and this is my story. I am a delivered more...
Walter Ginter
Westport , CT
My name is Walter Ginter. I am 54 years old and married. more…
Susan L. Flowers
After about 26 years of active addiction, I was finally more…
Anara Guard
Boston MA
My brother has a drug problem. Like many adults in their more…
Ted Wegener
I came into the world in 1949. My father was a radio and more…
Vicki Horseman
I am a 41 year old woman and single parent who began more…
Carol McDaid
Washington , DC
My name is Carol McDaid. I am a 42-year-old recovering more…
Tom McHale
Flint , MI
The memory of my last drink is still a vivid one. I was more...
Dan Griffin
Minneapolis , MN
I heard someone once say: "I don't know if I was born more…
William Moyers
Minnesota
Two years sober and feeling confident after a struggle to more...
Roger A. Zellars
Cincinnati , OH
I am a Vietnam veteran and a recovering alcoholic with more…
Stacia Murphy
New York , NY
I began drinking as a teenager, when I developed a more…
Anonymous
About nine months into my recovery, my boss brought more…
Shireda Prince
Virginia
Drug addiction will make you do things that you never more...
Bob Savage
Hartford , CT
I grew up in a family with an alcoholic father who died more...
Jeannie Villareal
Santa Clara , CA
I can remember the day my whole life changed. I more...
Darrell Williams
Missouri
My son is five years old. A couple of months ago more...
Frank T. Williams
San Francisco , CA
I am a recovering addict, ex-offender, and a man more…