L'ABSTINENCE PAYE !

5 novembre 2013

MARTIN J. WALSH ELU MAIRE DE BOSTON

RECOVERING ALCOHOLIC WINS BOSTON MAYORAL ELECTIONS

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Date de sobriété : 23 avril 1995

Photomontage ! C'est la presse qui a découvert son appartenance à AA...

He never mentioned he was an AA member... Press discovered it

Less known is the strong support Walsh gets from the drug and alcohol addicted community - and their family members. Walsh is a recovering alcoholic - who has spent much of his 18 sober years helping others.

It was around this time that some of Walsh's co-workers started to hint to him that he might have a problem with his drinking. 

"I just didn't think it was. But, then I started to disappoint people and it just kind of spiraled. It was ruining holidays and ruining other occasions and blacking out, but I would drink at different times with different people." 

It all came to a head in April of 1995. 

"I was still going to work, but it was just, the feelings inside were just guilt, remorse, shame, all those feelings you get as an alcoholic were bubbling up inside of me." 

Walsh went to rehab, where he came to grips with his alcoholism. He's been sober ever since. 

"You hear it every now and then. You can't drink? No, you can't have one. No, not even one? No. No. People don't understand it, but my life is unbelievable today because of getting into recovery." 

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