counselor at Y-Haven , a YMCA program that helps homeless men overcome addiction. While he was there, the Ohio Supreme Court gave him his law license back. Last year, Garrity left Y-Haven to start his own law firm. He specializes in criminal defense and helping health care professionals regain the licenses they've lost because of alcohol or drugs. He has a girlfriend now. He lectures lawyers about avoiding addiction. And a few times a week, he helps other addicts figure out what kind of treatment they need. It was a couple of days after Christmas and Angelo asked his uncle for one of his Robin Hood Cream Ales. When nobody was looking, he drank the whole thing. His legs went numb and a wonderful dizziness overtook him. If this is what being loaded is like, sign me up, he told himself. That was 1976. He was 7 years old. "By the time I was 12, I was probably drunk four or five times a month," Angelo says. Even though his parents didn't drink, their Fairview Park home was the place where friends and neighbors gathered. And those gatherings always included alcohol. Other kids in the neighborhood drank, but not like Angelo. "The day of my eighth-grade graduation, I found a 12-pack of Hamm's beer and I started drinking about three hours before my graduation," he says. "And I never had an inkling at that point that I was sick." Angelo went on to St. Edward, where he played defensive back