SURVIVING SOBRIETY

For four years I lived in a homeless shelter, on an island out in Boston Harbor. I was drug-addicted and I was flat-out broken. I was still feeling the effects from the last concussion I sustained, in a series of concussions that happened from being too high. I had lost my home, and all of my possessions. I had lost all my teeth. My emotional functioning was going downhill because of concussion-related depression, and I lost my social security checks because of an outstanding felony warrant. Thi