When Addiction Takes Everything

Addiction does not always look ruined.

Sometimes it wears fur and jewellery. Sometimes it wears an expensive watch. Sometimes it<BR>makes everyone laugh. Sometimes it looks like a tidy woman with a good job, a husband and<BR>>When Addiction Takes Everything tells the true stories of people whose lives were touched and<BR>ultimately transformed by alcohol, relapse, trauma and hidden pain.<BR>There is Helen, who repeatedly vanished from her respectable life and was found sleeping rough<BR>in freezing conditions. Harry, a handsome and distinguished man whose knowledge, education<BR>and years around recovery could not protect him when alcohol returned. Mr Potato Head, the<BR>funny, welcoming friend whose private suffering remained hidden behind silliness and laughter.<BR>And a glamorous, creative woman whose slow fall from fur coats and jewellery ended in<BR>>These are not stories written to shame the people who were lost. They reveal how addiction strips<BR>away dignity, security and identity - and how its damage spreads into the families who love, fear<BR>and search for the person disappearing before them.<BR>But one chair is not empty