My first words in the Program were, “My name is Andy…and I am here.”
An old timer asked, “So why are you here?”
“I think that I have a potential problem with drinking. I am having some problems and think that I should stop. But my life is under control. No one knows that I have a drinking problem. All my drinking friends are kept is separate compartments and don’t know each other. If they all got together, they would see that I have a drinking problem. But my life is not unmanageable. I am in third-year law school, and doing well other than my drinking.”