They are the first step on the road to recovery. They don t fix people. Craft, who has been sober for eight years after the collapse of her 23-year marriage, said alcoholics and drug addicts are desperate to put their faith and belief in just about anything. Many times, all it takes is a little encouragement. Let s see what this meeting is about.
Many people are afraid to go by themselves.
If someone had done that to me, it might not have taken me 20 years to get sober. Sometimes, it takes time for substance abusers to get comfortable enough to step forward. At St. Luke s, Deacon Jerry Klement said only a few people have called seeking information. He knows the dearth of calls is not because there aren t any people in his parish with chemical dependency problems. Statistics from a Gallop Poll show that one in three families have someone dealing with an alcohol problem.