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    The Stairway to Addiction
    The Stairway to Addiction
    The Stairway to Addiction
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    The Stairway to Addiction

    By Mark Whitney

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    Crazy adventures about a man who went from alcoholic and drug addict to a clean and sober entrepreneur. Whats it was like to grow up in a family where everything revolved around alcohol. The process of climbing up the stairway to addiction and the slow and painful process of climbing back down. How a hand rail was finally found to help climb back down and break the hold addiction had on him. Millions of people go through the same struggle and hopefully this book will shed some light on how to break the cycle of addiction.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMark Whitney
    Release dateMar 20, 2016
    ISBN9781311712233
    The Stairway to Addiction
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    Mark Whitney

    I have always been interested in writing and telling stories. The trouble was back when I was growing up the only thing that was all around us was alcohol. I soon took up the bad habit of drinking and drug use when I was in my teens. After being in the fog for so many years it was time to do something about it. I worked hard at being sober and drug free and now I want everyone to know how I did it and the steps it took to be clean and sober. My first book, The Stairway To Addiction is a reflection of all the crazy stories I went through in my life climbing up and down the stairway to addiction.

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      The Stairway to Addiction - Mark Whitney

      Preface

      I want to dedicate this book to my Dad and my wife, Sherry. I should have took some of the advice my Dad gave me when I was young. He was a very smart man and did manage to stop drinking in the later years of his life. He missed out on so much by being in the fog. To my wife, who without you I would still be lying in the gutter somewhere.

      If this books helps just 1 person out of the fog of alcohol, drugs and tobacco use, it was worth the time and money I spent to write it. Addiction is a serious disease and our society is full of of good people who have a problem with addiction and need someone to help them out of their fog. This book is a journey from being a hard core alcohol, drug and tobacco user, to a productive clean and sober entrepreneur. If you have trouble with alcohol or drugs or you know someone who does, give this book a read and pass it along. It may just change your life.

      Just ask any of the people I worked with years ago and they will tell you if anyone was an expert on drinking, I would win hands down. I was also told once if I ever wrote a book on drinking it would be a best seller. Now, I’m not really sure about it being a bestseller, but when it came to drinking beer they should have put my picture on a can of Budweiser. I was going to sue Anheuser Busch at one time for making me sleep with questionable women. If I would have been sober it never would have happened. Here is a story about an adventure of being a hard core alcoholic.

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      Hello, my name is Mark, and I am an alcoholic, I said in a loud voice to hide my nervousness. It took me a long time to get the nerve up to get in front of these people and say this. I just wanted to put on a good front so if my probation officer asked anyone if I participated they would say yes. These AA meetings we a requirement of the court to keep me out of jail and that is the only reason I was here. Evidently 2 DUI’s did not quite pound the message into my head that I had a problem. I did not need these meetings I thought, they are for drunks.

      People came up to me at AA and introduced themselves, but I was too involved in denial and just withdrew from them. Little did I know that these people were in the same position I was in at one time and they just wanted to help me. A drink in one hand, a cigarette in the other, a bowl or two of marijuana and a few lines of coke was the way I spent every night after work. I didn’t care what people thought about me, I wanted to drink until I could not walk anymore to numb the pain of losing my wife and kids.

      I had a drinking problem alright; 2 hands and 1 mouth. There just never seemed to be enough alcohol and drugs to satisfy my hunger for a high. Smoking cigarettes seemed to go right along with drinking and drugs. Until you hit rock bottom, you are in denial and never admit to yourself you have a problem. AA is one of the places where you can start down the road to sobriety. After the second DUI they sent me to a psychotherapist to see what the deep root of my problem was. At the time the only problem I had was these people trying to pry information out of me. I really did not think it was any of their business what my life was like before alcohol. I just told him what he wanted to hear in order to pacify the court system.

      The Stairway to Alcohol

      Being part of a family where everything revolved around alcohol, kind of cemented into my psyche that this was the way life was supposed to be. Every weekend the family either went to my maternal grandfather’s or my Uncle's house. My dad was a big drinker and I wanted to follow in his footsteps.

      Dad was a stout good looking man and mom was an attractive woman, but they always seemed to squabble about, well my Dad's heavy drinking. Dad was a hard worker and a hard drinker. According to my aunt my dad slowed down on his drinking when he married my mom. But as young couples sometimes squabble, trouble soon followed and dad began drinking and staying out late and mom would do the same. My Aunt seemed to be one of the few people in my family that didn’t drink every night, even though her husband was a drunk.

      My dad was always the one to have a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other. It was part of his personality to be feeling good. It started when he was young and just grew from there. According to my Aunt and some of his accounts my Grandfather left them alone for weeks at a time when they were very young.

      My grandmother had died when my dad was 9 years old. I would guess that my grandfather was very distraught at losing his wife and the pain was too much to bear. That is no excuse to leave your children alone to fend for themselves. Dad and his 2 younger sisters went to stay with relatives or where ever they could find a place to rest their heads. This was during the great depression and many people did not have money or extra food.

      Dad had many stories about the different places he stayed but one story stuck in my mind. My uncle’s wife had a relative who owned a farm and needed help. He agreed to give my dad room and board and a small salary. Dad worked for a few weeks and wanted a little money to buy some things in town. The farmer told dad he was not going to pay him a nickel because he was a 12 year old kid and pushed him down. Dad was usually pretty mild tempered but lost his cool and decided to take matters into his own hands. He grabbed a pitchfork and pinned the man against the wall and told him that he wanted his money and wanted it now. You never saw a man grab his wallet so fast and dish out some money. After he gave dad some money he called the Sheriff to have my dad arrested. The Sheriff that came out just happened to be a friend of my grandfather’s and bought all his moonshine off of him. Dad told the Sheriff what happened and the Sheriff told the guy if he hears of any other problem about him not paying his help he would take him to jail. Back in the 1940’s, jails were not a very pleasant place to be.

      Dad went into the service in 1948 and that is where he said alcohol came into his life. He was in charge of the motor pool and said his job was to take the Commander downtown and get him drunk. He was not supposed to drink when he was driving but the commander did not care as long as they made it back in one piece. He said there were a

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