Air Date: September 04, 2010 - Gina was a novice with drugs until she tried crystal meth at age 16 and "rode the wave" of insanity for the next decade hitting numerous lows throughout including theft, arrests, prostitution and compulsive gambling.  As her life spiraled out of control she was chosen for a "documentary" which

Air Date: September 04, 2010 - Bob has not placed a bet for 28 years and can still not recall anything he has experienced that compares to the rush of gambling.  Today Bob shares tales from his life as a gambling addict beginning with the thrill of pitching pennies as a youngster in New York City to his countless trips to La

Air Date: August 28, 2010 - As a child, Josh picked up fantasizing before he picked up a drink in order to mute the negative voice residing between his ears.  As he grew the drinking and drugging escalated along with his "alchy bravado" as he became divorced from life until the cumulative effect of people telling him to

Air Date: August 28, 2010 - When Julie took her first drink she went from shy and angry to outgoing and the life of the party.   For the next 20 years Julie experienced "everything that can happen to an alcoholic" and towards the end destroyed a marriage, a business, and a couple of cars in succession until her fathe

Air Date: August 21, 2010 - When Pat was 19 his father; who was his best friend and drinking buddy, died.  Pat instinctively flipped on his "I don’t give a you know what" switch and checked out into drugs and alcohol leading to a 20 bag a day heroin habit for the next decade.  Today Pat is clean and sober and refle

Air Date: August 21, 2010 - Rob started drinking at 17 and right away he knew something was wrong.  He would take 2 drinks for every 1 his peers took.  Drinking quickly turned into drugs where he frequented “the darkest place on earth you could ever imagine” involving double digit car wrecks and being awake for seven

Air Date: August 14, 2010 - Teddy cannot recall his first Filet Mignon’, or his first ice cream cone, but he will never forget his first beer at age 13. Teddy’s drinking quickly coalesced into regular heroin use with a crew or 50 or 60 guys; 80% of whom died before they turned 30. It’s been 25 years and Teddy now runs with

Air Date: August 14, 2010 - Linda was a talented child with big dreams but always felt "lost"; when she found alcohol she learned not to care about anything. Linda fled home and traversed the country in search of wholeness, but it was until Linda bottomed out into the rooms of recovery that she learned she had to stop running

Air Date: August 07, 2010 -  Ronnie's passion for music brought him to its most prestigious ceremony-- the Grammy Awards, only to find himself being thrown offstage in a drunken blackout.  This was the end of Ronnie's tumultuous past  He used alcohol as a child to cope with his father's tragic death eventually w

Air Date: August 07, 2010 - Herb had to get used to having fun without guilt after he quit drinking at 22.  Prior to getting sober, he was used to blackouts, waking up with black eyes, run-ins with guards at school, driving drunk, and getting arrested.  Now he lives in NYC and is connected with a young persons' AA gr