“I started selling drugs at a young age,” Kyle recalls. “I was 15 or 16 at the time, and I after a while I started doing the drugs, too. I was in and out of jail, and I overdosed three times. I lost both of my parents to drug overdoses, too. It wasn’t the life … Continued
On a cold day in spring 2022, Adrian’s double life came to an abrupt halt when he was hit by a car during his commute. At the time, he worked as an addictions counselor but was still grappling with his own addiction. “I was telling clients to stop using, but I knew I would use … Continued
Chris grew up bouncing between foster homes and time with his mother and grandparents. “I never felt like I was part of anything real—always on the outside, looking in,” he recalls. His childhood was marked by a pervading sense that the people in his life would leave, and from an early age Chris struggled to … Continued
“I was a closet drinker,” Dan says. “I can’t express how strange it is to look at photographs of the 15 years prior to recovery and know that in every single one of them, I was drunk by the end of that day.” While he had successfully hidden his addiction from his family for years, … Continued
By Colin W., Renascent Alumni I have tried getting and being sober since my first treatment center at age 16 and it just never stuck. I thought for years that the reason for this was that I never truly believed I was an alcoholic or an addict. So when I would commit, naturally this reservation … Continued
A note on language. At Renascent, we help people recover from substance use addiction and integrate 12-Step facilitation into our programming. We recognize that the substances our clients are recovering from and the 12-Step groups they connect with may vary. Throughout our website you may see general terms relating to the 12 Steps as we … Continued
