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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
Tim Powers
La Crosse, WI
I am a recovering alcoholic going on three years sober this May. I was your typical All-American kid: athletic, honor student, well-respected, healthy...for the first eighteen years of my life I didn’t touch drink or drugs. It was when I went to college that the lifestyle of drinking and drugging started and it was a slow spiral to near oblivion from that point to where I ended up the night of May 7, 2003--in a psych ward, arrested for my second OWI, broke, literally homeless with a soul that was destroyed and a future that held prison, mental institutions, or death. Since May 8, 2003 I have been on the journey of recovery and I enjoy the highs and lows and I haven't taken a drink in that time. I never thought that I would enjoy a life of sobriety, but I am and have been reaching out to my fellow brothers and sisters in the recovery community.
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