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Our Stories
William Moyers
Minnesota
Two years sober and feeling confident after a struggle to overcome a lifelong addiction to alcohol and other drugs, I took a chance and shared my personal story with the head of human resources at Cable News Network (CNN) in Atlanta, where I was applying for a job as a journalist in the early 1990’s. She congratulated me. And after I got the CNN job, so did my new supervisor and her supervisor; they knew I was in recovery, but it didn’t seem to matter.
But addiction disease is cunning, baffling, powerful and in my case, stealthfully patient. I suffered a short but near fatal relapse and failed to show up for work one day. Four days later, I was still AWOL. My supervisors were shocked. But they were also sympathetic to the chronic nature of my illness, in part because I had shared with them my story of addiction and recovery. I was given a leave of absence to get help, the human resources department found me an appropriate treatment facility, and then helped me to tap my health insurance to cover much of my treatment. Finally, my job was waiting for me when I returned, and my work schedule was altered to take into account my aftercare needs. I’ve been clean and sober ever since.
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