I Didn’t Know What to Call It Back Then… But Now I Do

Same road. Different direction... by Fred Ferguson - GeezerWise

In 1993, I sobered up.

I didn’t know what I was doing. I didn’t have a “life plan.” I just knew that if I kept living the way I was living, I wouldn’t be living much longer.

So I followed the one guy I trusted, an old drinking buddy who had gotten clean and stayed that way for five years. He told me what worked for him: detox, AA, meetings, treatment, and…