Jack Malone celebrates 25 years of sobriety, helping others

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JUNE 25, 2018 – Jack Malone has a designated parking space at Lebanon Pines and a story similar to the men who come to the residential substance abuse treatment facility when alcohol or drugs has taken over their lives. The 62-year-old Norwich native, a Navy veteran, former newspaperman and longtime state representative, had his last drink on June 20, 1993. His sobriety date is June 21, the day he entered a two-week rehabilitation facility in New Hampshire. On Monday, he is planning to go to his regular Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, where he expects to receive a medallion and eat cake — “Even if I have to buy the cake myself” — to celebrate his quarter-century of sobriety. Malone, executive director of the Southeastern Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, said he has never afforded himself the anonymity available to those in the AA fellowship. He agreed to talk about his struggle with alcohol during an interview recently in his office at Lebanon Pines, SCADD’s state-supported, long-term treatment facility for men.