Welcome to You Are Not Alone, a Recovery podcast.

My name is Matt Jay and on this show, we're here to share our experience, strength, and hope recovering from addiction.

You can contact the show at our website, not alone recovery.com.

All my links for where you can find the podcast, where you can find the social media links,

and where you can actually listen to the program right there.

We do not speak for any 12-step group, but we do try to remain anonymous.

And what we're doing today is something a little bit different.

Yeah, we've had alcoholics on the show.

We've talked 12-step work.

But part of addiction and recovery is how it affects the family, how it affects our friends.

And there's illness to go around regardless of whether you have a problem with the bottle or not.

And my guest this week is my old friend, Jerry G.

Do we want to give your last name?

Do we want to not?

Do we want to talk about you?

You tell me what you want to do.

I guess it doesn't.

Yeah, no, let's just keep it at the G.

We try to keep it anonymous here.

So we'll do what you're comfortable with.

So I was trying to figure it out.

I'm like, I think I had known you 23 years.

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