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Hey everybody, I'm Alex, Alcoholic, Day 17, and I'm not a newcomer, I'm a retread, and

so to qualify, I have four DUIs spent 62 days in jail, drink every day for about 25 years,

except when I was in jail or pretty and other than that, I pretty much every night I would

get drunk. I started smoking weed when I was 12 too, so I have a marijuana addiction as

well. And so my most recent drink is March 23rd, 2015. That was the, I got my fourth DUI

earlier in that month, or actually was in February, and it's, it had already been AA, and it

would stick like, you know, a couple days at first, a couple weeks. Alcohol was definitely

a marijuana, my solution to dealing with feelings, problems, so without really changing,

I inevitably would just go back to drinking again, smoking weed too. I never even really

thought weed was a problem early on. And really it was like blown up relationships was

the worst thing for me, hurting other people, and just ended up alone. I'm definitely

a people person. I think I'm actually got probably code issues and other stuff there,

I'm liking that, that's a different meaning. So anyway, that March 23rd or that time, I,

100% knew alcohol was, was a problem. So I, you know, got back to, did 99, I actually

did more. I was not working, so I would go to like three meetings a day, or any time

I wasn't, you know, like anytime I wasn't working or didn't have something to do, I'd

be in a meeting. That kept me out of myself. It kept me from taking that first drink.

And so about three, four months into that, I was actually going to go see the grateful

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