Although he credits the later AA meetings for giving him a support system, he remained alcohol- and drug-free even after he dropped the meetings. Roger, now 26, has managed to stay sober for the past three years. He moved to Michigan and started going to AA meetings, finding them helpful for a few months and even completing the 12 steps - but eventually dropped off. Two days in, police did a wellness check - on his parents’ request - and that’s when he reconnected with his family.
Suddenly, in December 2014, Roger decided to stop drinking. By the end of November, he had stopped going to work and cut off communication with friends and family. In September 2014, he was hospitalized for his alcohol and drug use. He managed to keep working and hid his drinking and stimulant drug use. “I spent a year and a half staying blackout-ish drunk every night,” he said. Within months, he moved to Virginia, and went back to drinking and using drugs. He tried a 12-step treatment program in Indiana in 20 for his alcohol and stimulant drug use. At this point, I just incorporate the steps in daily living.”īut for every Rae, there’s a Roger, who asked I use a pseudonym. But I feel like they gave me the design for living life. “I still, 10 years later, don’t understand why they worked. “When I started doing the steps, I didn’t think they were going to work,” she said. Steward said that with the help of the program and AA meetings, she’s been sober for 10 years. Among the steps: submit to a higher power, address “defects of character,” and make amends for past problems. Attendees are encouraged to complete 12 guidelines - or “steps” - that combine spiritualistic ideals about addiction, along with the view that it’s a disease, to help them overcome their illness. Then Steward found a treatment program, which pushed her to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and follow the 12 steps.
“I was pretty much just blackout the entire time.”
“I barely remember those two years,” she said. But it got really bad in her late teens and early 20s. Rae Steward, a 33-year-old from California, struggled with alcohol and drug addiction as early as age 14.
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