I grew up in New York before moving to North Carolina when I was in my early teens. Not too long after moving here, I had my first experience with drugs and alcohol. I was probably about 14 or 15 years old at the time. It wasn’t really something that I had the desire to…
A lot of my drinking was based on my childhood. My real parents were divorced when I was an infant. My mom remarried and I was abused physically and mentally. When I turned six, my mom was just going to give me up for foster care and get rid of me, so my aunt and…
For the last five months before I made it to Healing Transitions, I disconnected from my family and my first child, Brody. At the time he was four years old. I was couch surfing and in a very abusive relationship for part of those five months, finally ending up sleeping under bridges or in my…
My name is Dorothy Matteson Pierce and I am silver chip number 84! I came to The Healing Place, now Healing Transitions, at the age of 25 and was completely broken emotionally. I grew up in Raleigh and had a wonderful life up through high school. Because I played select soccer for CASL and for…
I came through the doors of Healing Transitions on January 9, 2012. I was a 33-year-old high school dropout, and I had spent the better part of my adult life incarcerated as a direct result of my addiction. I started out smoking pot and drinking in high school and then eventually graduated to harder drugs.…
When Casy and Jason had met in 1999, they were already actively using. From the start of their relationship, drugs and alcohol were a big part of their relationship. “We were together for a year when I got pregnant with our son,” said Casy. “I thought a child would settle us down and that we’d…