We moved around a lot when I was a kid, a direct result of my father’s alcoholism and the fact hat he kept losing job after job.  He always claimed that he drank because he kept getting fired, but I knew it was the other way around. Ever once in awhile my Mom would try to convince him to seek treatment, but after a couple of years she gave up hope.  I mean she had tried everything from threatening to leave to getting him into different alcohol treatment centers. Florida was where we eventually ended up staying with relatives so we would have a roof over our heads.

I thought that Florida was a great place and that maybe if Mom could convince him to check himself into a Florida drug rehab center there was a chance that Dad could get better.  Florida drug treatment is top notch and there were some treatment methods that we hadn’t heard of elsewhere.

Mom didn’t even have to beg him to go into treatment: for the first time he wanted to go and get some help on his own. He has now been sober for 7 years.  He still takes it one day at a time, but we are so thankful and happy.

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