This year, to celebrate National Recovery Month and her own fifth year in recovery, Sandra Huffman is walking 1,300 miles from Fort Lauderdale to Washington, D.C. Here, we talked with Sandra about her struggle with addiction and how she was inspired to move forward. Phoenix House: What was your initial experience with addiction? Sandra Huffman: My more

When I was growing up in Providence, Rhode Island, it was all “peace, love, and drugs.” Drug use was accepted back then, and marijuana was the drug of choice. I didn’t like smoking, but I started drinking alcohol because it helped me to fit in. But my mother was an alcoholic, so I had heredity more