My name is Christine and I'm a recovering addict. I started to use alcohol when I was 8 and drugs when I was 11. We have to remember that alcohol is a drug so not to forget that anything can set us back. A little background on myself is that I grew up in a small town in Nebraska with about 300 ppl. I was brought up in a certain lifestyle with my dad and grandparents. Which was very strick  and church like. I was in a parochial school from kindergarten to 8th grade. Life for me was sheltered early on, and I began to ask questions. Questions of "why" or "why me?" My mother died when I was 2 and I began to resent the higher power that I was brought up with. Resent because of the pain I felt inside and the pain from not understanding life as it was. Nothing was fair and nothing's seemed to make sense to me on how I could feel such an empty hole inside all the time. I understand today that I made myself to be the victim of what my higher powers will had in s...