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Feb. 21, 2025 – There’s a fine-line to determine whether or not someone may be an alcoholic.
“But when it crosses over to dysfunction in your life, it’s affecting your family, it’s affecting your work, it’s affecting just your daily functioning,” Adams said. “And it’s always attached to some sort of mental health.”% of Syste
After nearly a decade of alcoholism, 60-year-old Tracy realized she needed help. Tracy did not want to share her last name with Spectrum News 1. It was in 2018 she started her journey to get sober.
“I was throwing up and I was not feeling great,” Tracy said. “I didn’t understand why I had to wake up in the morning and drink. Because that was the only thing that would help me.”
Over the next few years, tracy would be in and out of rehab programs and treatment.
“Alcoholism is a funny thing,” said Tracy. “It’s a little guy or a girl that talks to you. It takes over.”
She says it was an internet search which connected her to Spectrum Health and their New England Recovery Center. Treatment finally stuck and Tracy has been sober for more than two years.
