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Smoking at age 11 or 12.

Drinking alcohol

Worst event was drinking until blind drunk when I was about 17 in high school … kept blacking out multiple times all night and gained awareness at different times and places in the city … at one point, I was running across a four lane highway, tripped fell and gained momentary awareness with a car blaring their horn and the headlights shining in my face … went black again … woke up in a hotel lobby … black again … woke up at my doorstep where my friends dumped me and my parents dragged me inside. I was gone for about ten hours and I have no idea where I went or what I did.

All because I wanted to be like my friends around me and hang out with people.

Thankfully I cleaned up early on and now I’m 29 years sober.