MY ADDICTION STARTED WHEN I WAS THREE AND MY BROTHER WAS SIX.MY MOTHER WAS PUT IN A MENTALINSTITUTION IN ST.LOUIS,MISSOURI,SHORTLY AFTER MY FATHER'S DEATH;HE WAS A BOMBARDIER IN WW2,MADE ALL OF HIS FLIGHTS AND MAED ITTHROUGH THE WAR,AND WAS STRICKEN AND DEAD OF POLIOTOW MONTHS LATER.MY BROTHER AND I WERE PUT IN ST.JOSEPH FOR BOY'S BASICALLY ORPHANED,WHICH WOUND UP BEING AVERY BRUTAL EXPERIENCE,WITH LOTS OF ISOLATION,I WAS PUT BY MY INLOCKED EMPTY DORMWHEN I WAS SICK ,WHICH ONLY SERVED TO SCARED MESENSELESS AS WELL..IT SEEMED LIKE A HUGE PLACEAT THE TIME,WHEN I WANT BACK,IT WAS ACTUALLY A VERY SMALL PLACE.WHEN I WAS SIX;THERE WAS A PARADE OUTSIDE AND TOOK MEDICINE OUT OF THE CABINET AFTER THAT DAY THE MEDICINE CABINET .WHEN I WAS NINE, MY MOM GOT US OUT OF THAT INSTIUTION AND TOOK US TO DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES.THEY WERE JUST FINISHING THE LA FREEWAY AT THE TIME.I WAS HANGING OUT WITH STREET GANGS DOWNTOWN I WAS 12.LATER WE MOVED TO CHATSWORTH LAKE ONE OF THE LAKE BOY'S.I WAS 15 AND DOING HEROIN.I CAME HOME TO ONE DAY TO SEE MY MOM DIGGING A HOLE INTHE FRONT YARD .SHE WAS SAYING TO ME,CAN YOU HEAR YOUR FATHER DOWN THERE?THE NEIGHBORS CALLED THE COPS,MOM WAS RE-INSTITUTIONALIZED.AND MY 6 YEAR OLD SISTER WENT TO FOSTER CARE.THEN IWAS ON THE STREETS .I GO TO THE LITTLE STORE IN CHATSWOURTH AND BY LOTS OF DOPE FROM THE BIKERS.WHEN I WAS 16 I MET THE LOVE OF MY LIFE WE WERE MARRIED ENSENADA MEXICO.WE LIVE AT HRE DADS IN SAN FERNANDO VALLEY.THE LA PO-POWERE WE LIVEING FOR HAVEING DOPE.I WENT TO IONE ,A YOUTH AUTHORITY PRISON.I WAS 19 WHEN IGOT OUT OUR SON WAS BORN WHILE I WAS IN PEISON,WHEN I GOT OUT I MOVED WITH A GIRL FROM WASHINGTON,TACOMA.I WORK AT THE FIRST TOPLESS.IWAS CALLED BY LA PO-PO I WAS TOLD THAT MY SON WAS FOUND WALKING THE STREETS.WHEN I GOT MY SON HE WAS SAYING THAT HIS MOM WAS IN THIS BOARDED-UP HOUSE WE STOPE AND HE RAN INTO THE HOUSE TO FIND HIS MOTHER,SHE WAS DEAD FROM AN OVERDOSE OF HEROIN.NOW IN 1983 IS MY B-DAY 5-6-1983,I'LL BE 24 IN NA .MY SON JOE T JR.IS 43 THIS YR.AND HE'S IN NA AS WILL THAT'S COOL.NA.SAVED MY LIFE.IN 1984 I WAS CARRING THE NA HLLP LINE PAGER THAT NIGHT FOR NA ,AND FOR THE STILL SUFFERING ADDICTS THAT NEED TO KNOW THERE IS A NEW LIFE IN NA.AT THE JAIL I WAS CARRYING THE NA MESSAGE H&I.WHEN I HAD AN UNM6ENTIONABLE URGE:"I HAD TO USE THE CAN"MY PAGER FELL IN WITH SUBSTANCES AS IREACHED FOR THE PAGER ,I MISSED THE OPPORTUNITY DUE TO THE SWIFT ACTION OF THE WATER SYSTEM,IT WAS A LOSS.NEEDLESS TO SAY.I CALLED MY SPONSOR,FOR SOME REASON THE HYSTERICS WAS NECESSARY DUE TO THE LOSS OF THE EQUIPMENT.HE TOLD ME TO CALLTHE THE WORKER AT THE JAIL "I DID"THEY ALSO FOUND THIS TOO BE FUNNY???.WHEN I WENT TO THE NA BUSINESS MEETING AND THEY AGREED NOT TO BUY A NEW PAGER BECAUSE THE INSURANCE ONLY COVERED IT FOR TEN DOLLARS AND WE WOULD OF TO PAY A HUNDRED TO REPLACE IT.THE NA GROUP AGREED THIS WAS AN ACT OF GOD,ONE OF THE MEMBERS SAID THANKS YOU JOE T "FLUSH".THAKS TO H&I,AND NA,I LIVE CLEAN AND FREE...

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ALCOHOL/DRUGS AT 15 TEEN I WAS A HEROIN ADDICT I WAS MARRIED IN ENSENADA AT 16,BEV MY LOVE OF MY LIFE DIED O/D ON HEROIN IT WAS SO BAD MY SON WAS 5 AND DID'NT KNOW WHAT TO DO SO HE LIFED THE HOUSE,IWAS IN JAIL.MAN I DON'T LIKE ALCOHOL/DURG IT WAS TAKEING MY LIFE,AND THEN MY WIFE MY KIDS MOM,SHE IS MISSED AND LOVED,AND TO DAY I FORGIVE MEAND OTHERS-I STOPED DISLIIKING -TO KNOW GOD-IS TO LOVE-AND FORGIVE.

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