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Mark S was an altar boy. He participated in sports and the chess club at a prominent Catholic high school where nuns told him he had a great future. He never used drugs or alcohol. Then came college. At first, he excelled. Mark S was a great student, president of the Black Student Union, and picked by his class as “most likely to succeed.” But he lived a double life. Although he graduated college with a degree and a good job offer, he also left with a full-fledged addiction to drugs and alcohol. 

“I wanted to stop, but I couldn’t stop on my own,” Mark S said. “I joined the military to get some discipline. But when I got out, I gravitated right back to the same thing. Everything, every dime that I made went toward using drugs.” Mark recalls his bottom: He was in an alley, high and screaming to no one in particular, “I need help. I can’t stop. I don’t know why. What’s wrong with me? I just can’t stop.”