Step 2: Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Sunlight filled the room. It was bright and cheerful, much like Mary herself. Dressed in fashionable business attire, most would find it difficult to believe that Mary was once homeless and addicted to hard street drugs.

Every morning for 13 months, Lauren Kotz peered down from her prison bunk into her newborn baby’s crib. Twenty-two days into her detention, she gave birth to her daughter.

Step 1: Admitted that we were powerless over our addiction and our lives had become unmanageable.

When someone says that their recovery story is centered around a rat, you might logically conclude they are about to tell you about how they got busted and ended up in jail, going into withdrawal, and entering a recovery program to start a new way of life because of a “rat.” However, that is not Chad Wayt's rat story.

At the beginning of last spring, Ryan Adams, found himself belly up on an operating table at Camden Clark Medical Center in Parkersburg, West Virginia.