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Living Free - Al-Anon Family Groups – Joy and Linda

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2017/11/02

Joy shares her recovery story from growing up with an alcoholic father to having to cope with an alcoholic son. From a big family she left at 14 years old and began work before marrying an alcoholic and having a child. Then a single mum and workaholic Joy remarried and gained some step-kids. Life became unmanageable as her 13 year old son turned to alcohol and drugs. A friend helped her find Al-Anon and life slowly returned to normality. Joy went back to Uni, got a degree and reclaimed her life

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Narcotics Anonymous – Rich

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2017/10/26

Rich shares his recovery story, growing up in a loving family he starting drinking and eventually smoking dope in his early teens with his friends. Drinking became more serious at Uni before leaving and establishing a successful career in business. Having plenty of cash he quickly moved to party drugs, ecstasy and speed and onto cocaine. He married and had a child before realizing that he couldn’t control his drug using and it started causing problems with his close relationships.Rich got into rehab

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Alcoholics Anonymous – Di and Stu

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2017/10/19

Growing up in a family that drank and as an angry and rebellious girl, Di started drinking with friends in her early teens. She continued drinking and mixing with the wrong crowd through her twenties and thirties. Then in her early forties with a Uni degree, 3 kids and a demanding job she started to suffer the consequences of daily drinking. Eventually she sought help and recovered through Alcoholics Anonymous and has been in AA for nearly 12 years.Stu’s story is similar; he also started drinking

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Gamblers Anonymous – Steve and Chris

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2017/10/12

Growing up on a farm with race horses Steve started gambling at the races in his early teens, and continued through his twenties and thirties, losing everything on the horses before eventually recovering through Gamblers Anonymous in his late thirties.Chris’s story is quite different, she starting gambling on poker machines in her early twenties and finally just wanting to die of shame, from losing it all and more to the pokies, before overcoming her compulsion through Gamblers Anonymous in under 4

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Al-Anon Family Groups – Maree, Kathy & Mary

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2017/10/05

Maree shares her recovery story from when her husband began drinking alcoholically early in their marriage. After many years of suffering from the effects of alcoholism she eventually found help in Al-Anon Family Groups (Al-Anon) and decided to stay in that relationship, even though he still continues to drink. Kathy shares a similar story, coping with an alcoholic husband but found she needed help from Al-Anon after her teenage son's drinking became a major problem. After some years in Al-Anon and

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Narcotics Anonymous – Simon

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2017/09/28

Simon shares his recovery story, growing up in a rural environment and starting drinking and smoking dope in his early teens with his friends. He spent a year interstate trying to avoid drugs before discovering Oxycodone and then progressing to become a daily heroin user. He tried Methadone but continued to use a cocktail of drugs including heroin and found himself out of work and homeless. With family help he entered rehab and after about 12 months was able to get back into normal life without

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Alcoholics Anonymous – Kaz and Sharon

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2017/09/21

Kaz and Sharon share their recovery stories, starting drinking in their early teens before trying to find help through Alcoholics Anonymous multiple times, in their twenties, thirties and then forties. Although drinking was their primary compulsion Kaz also had a drug problem and Sharon suffered from bouts of depression. Both managed to re-establish good relationships with their kids after they managed to stay sober in AA.If you’re having trouble with alcohol and think that Alcoholics Anonymous

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Gamblers Anonymous – Steve

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2017/09/14

Steve shares his recovery story, starting gambling on horse races in his early teens before trying to find help through Gamblers Anonymous in his late thirties. Although gambling was his primary compulsion Steve also became an alcoholic and a drug addict but found help through Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous and then Al-Anon Family Groups to cope with his dad’s drinking.If you’re having trouble with gambling and think that Gamblers Anonymous could help you then phone (03) 9696 6108 or

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Alcoholics Anonymous - Christie & Sanjay

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2017/09/07

Sanjay shares his recovery story, starting drinking in his early teens before trying to find help through AA in his late twenties.Christie's story is quite different, starting with drug addiction in her teens before switching to alcohol in her mid twenties and coming into AA in her early thirties.If you’re having trouble with alcohol and think that Alcoholics Anonymous could help you then phone 1300 222 222 or see their website aa.org.au

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Narcotics Anonymous - Cam

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2017/08/31

Cam shares his recovery story, starting smoking drugs in his early teens before progressing to heroin and eventually finding help through NA in his late twenties.If you have a problem with drugs of any kind, you can call the Narcotics Anonymous helpline on 1300 652 820 or 0488 811 247 or go online at na.org.au.

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Medically Supervised Injecting Centre - Rally

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2017/08/24

Talking with the Residents for Victoria Street Drug Solutions about the upcoming rally on 27 August 2017 for the implemenation of a Medically Supervised Injecting Centre in North Richmond.

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Alcoholics Anonymous – Molly

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2017/08/10

Molly was a daily drinker at 15 years old and was also suffering from PTSD and Anorexia. She knew drinking was a problem as some of her friends we killing themselves. A blackout drinker from the start the dual problems of alcoholism and anorexia made things a lot worse as she only weighed around 30kg.Molly was hospitalized then in a shelter and finally homeless, she kept drinking but stayed off the drugs. She had no close relationships as they just got in the way of her drinking but came into

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Al-Anon Family Groups – John (Alateen)

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2017/08/03

John shares his recovery story, born into an alcoholic family he found the pressure of living with a drinking father greatly impacted his life. After his mum found help in Al-Anon Family Groups (Al-Anon) John decided to give it a go as well. Now able to live a reasonably relaxed life through Al-Anon John is now an Alateen Sponsor, helping teenagers understand the effects of a family member's drinking. Alateen is part of Al-Anon.If you, or anyone in your family is having problems with someone else's

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Al-Anon Family Groups – Maya

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2017/07/27

Maya shares her recovery story as the daughter of an alcoholic father and the pressure of living in a greatly impacted family. After her mum divorced, Maya couldn't really identify the family disease of alcoholism as the problem and she continued to have trouble in close relationships. Maya heard about Al-Anon Family Groups (Al-Anon) and decided to see if it could help her.If you, or anyone in your family is having problems with someone else's drinking then you can phone the Al-Anon Family Groups

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Living Free - 2017 Radiothon show

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2017/06/15

Today’s guests are JUDY RYAN, Secretary of the Residents for Victoria Street Drug Solutions; MARY a member of Al-Anon Family Groups; and RHONDA, a member of Alcoholics Anonymous.The Radiothon theme this year is Radio for Change and that pretty much sums up LIVING FREE – we’re all about changing lives for alcoholics, addicts, their families and the community. Remember, your support will keep our message of HOPE on the airwaves.

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