Article June 25, 2001 Issue

I was healed of alcoholism

By the time I was an adult, alcoholism was taking control of my life.

By Kate Mullane Oyer

I was not the stereotypical teenage alcoholic. I went to Sunday School every Sunday. I was a shy child and a shy teenager, kind of a bookworm, and had great difficulty in social settings.

One afternoon when I was preparing to go to a party at a friend's house, her parents noticed how nervous I was about being around other teenagers, and they offered me a glass of wine to relax. Well, that glass of wine turned into a very long habit of alcoholism that lasted almost 15 years.

By the time I was an adult, alcoholism was taking control of my life. I was addicted not only to wine but also to prescription medication to alleviate some of the symptomatology associated with alcohol abuse.

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