Recovery Stories: Journeys Through Adversity, Hope and Awakening

Recovery Stories is a collection of first-hand accounts by people in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction.Invaluable for those looking to find new, addiction-free ways to live, it contains insights into the lives of real people who hit 'rock bottom' but came back again.Of interest across a wide-range of disciplines, including health, education and social services. Addiction is an illness that kills. Accused of lacking a moral compass and blamed for their own self-destruction, addicts are often forced to live on the margins of society.Afforded little sympathy or support, they may end-up involved in criminality, violence, dishonesty and face despair.They may hit rock bottom when day-to-day survival can become a delicate balance between life and death.But addiction - which occurs in every walk of life - need not be a 'life sentence'.As this book shows, no-one is beyond turning such dire situations around.Recovery Stories is a collection of true stories of triumph over adversity.It tel