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Back Together Client appreciates the opportunity

n July 23, 2017, John Cooper, a substance abuse treatment client at Men and Women for Human Excellence in Atlanta, celebrated his one-year sobriety date. Cooper, who grew up in Connecticut, traces the start of his drinking back to his days in the U.S. Navy (1972-76). Cooper was a nuclear analyst stationed on an aircraft carrier o the coast of Vietnam. “We were on a ship, so there wasn't much else to do after we got o work,” he recalls. After the Navy, Cooper moved to Atlanta, married and found work as a butcher. He became a binge drinker on weekends and vacations. At one point, he stopped drinking “cold turkey” and remained sober for seven years. en, in 2016, stress from a divorce led him to resume drinking. “ en my personal life started falling apart.” Cooper wound up homeless.

Seeing people from different walks of life gives me hope I can do it, too. -John Cooper client, Men and Women For Human Excellence

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