I entered Bridge House as a total wreck and as a person with no direction in life.  I had hit an all-time low, and the only thing that mattered to me was where and how I was going to get my next fix.  I hurt everyone that loved me and isolated the ones I loved the most. It has been a very hard process to get to where...

My name is Michelle and I am 30 years old.  My drugs of choice are opiates, benzo’s, and soma’s.  My life in active addiction was completely unmanageable.  I have a 7 year old daughter who depends on me, and I was not the mother I should have been.  Now I live at Grace House and have been clean and sober for 4 months. ...

In possession of a persistent resilience for survival, despite the loss of all will to live, is where I had found myself after an eleven year relapse proceeded by nine years of youthful sobriety.  I long had felt Alcoholics Anonymous was no longer of any help to me though I still attended meetings, sporadically, in search...