State of Addiction: Recovery can be a lifelong battle
By ANDREW KNITTLE NewsOK.com on Mar 12, 2012, at 2:24 AM Updated on 3/12/12 at 4:15 AM
Recovering addict Forrest Coin poses for a photo outside the office of Dr. C.J. Shaw in Oklahoma City earlier this month. Shaw says addicts must deal with their pasts. NATE BILLINGS, The Oklahoman
OKLAHOMA CITY - Forrest Coin had been drinking and drugging for decades before deciding to give it up a few months ago.
Through the years, addiction to alcohol, pills and "just about anything I could get my hands on" landed him in drug treatment programs five times with no success.
Coin started drinking as a teen, eventually working his way up to IV drug use. Alcoholism, he said, runs in his family and "alcohol always seemed to be involved."
"I sought help after an overdose in 2003, but that didn't take," he said. "It was a short-term program at a hospital but I never followed up."
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Original Print Headline: Recovering addict expects a long battle
