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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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Our Stories
Dan Duncan
St. Louis, MO
My story of addiction disease is not unlike many, many others. I drank as a young man for fun and conviviality. I had a very active, even vibrant social life throughout my twenties but very slowly, so much as to be imperceptible, I found myself losing the important things in my life. A fiance, a job, a career, respect of friends, self-respect, and finally, the will to live. I sought help, received treatment and plugged into the world of self-help for alcoholism; became a student of recovery and very gradually most of what I had lost or thought I'd lost, returned. I went back to school, got a degree, pursued a new vocation and Today, I have a wonderful family, a beautiful home, friends, respect for myself, happiness and peace of mind...all due to and thanks to recovery. This week I celebrate 25 years of sobriety. I am so, so grateful for the help that I received and to all the people I have learned from, sitting around tables and sharing what we've learned with one another, for ourselves and for one and all.
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