Everybody Suffers With Addiction

by Jennifer
(England)

My late sister-in-law was a binge drinker. Every second night, she drank herself into a stupor. My brother and his kids tried everything, from intervention, to AA, to inpatient treatment.

Her son eventually became a drinker, too. After my brother finally divorced her, Joanie passed out one night with a lit cigarette. Her son, twenty-year-old Jonathan was in the house with her when it caught fire. He escaped, but then realized his mother was trapped in the house.

At that point, the house was a wall of flames. His mother died of smoke inhalation. Jonathan is still drinking.