You Can Be Set Free From Alcohol And Drugs!

By J. Calvin Peace III

Bound by addictions to both drugs and alcohol, an addict for 40 years, tells step by step how he became an addict, and how he has been clean and sober for 25 years, and how you or someone you love can have the same victory!

For the first time publicly, this former longtime newspaper reporter, editor and Director of Communications for Tropicana Products, Inc., the world's largest producer of chilled citrus juices and related products, tells how he dropped from owning a home on the water on Longboat Key, Florida, into a $100 rotten travel trailer with his wife, Mary, for five years.

He relates the horrors he bestowed upon himself, his wife and family and how one morning within a few hours within that small trailer, his life was changed forever!

Today at the age of 77, he goes to work every day and visits the local jail twice a week to counsel one on one with inmates in an effort to help them turn their lives around and never face having to go back to jail again.

The author believes that the same secrets he learned that eliminated his addictions, can also change the lifestyles of those caught up in a life of crime and if they apply these secrets, they can finally live a productive life in society and never be a so-called repeat offender again.

Amazingly, his wife of 54 years is still by his side and she and his children have all forgiven him!

During the transformation period of his life, the author witnessed and tells of a number of what he calls “Miracles” that re-positioned him and his family back into Society and set up a future for him and his loved ones.

He has dedicated the rest of his life to helping and encouraging others who are suffering not only from addictions, but from any other pitfalls and traps that life can dish out to destroy lives.

• Language: English
• Publisher: J. Calvin Peace III
• Release date: Aug 20, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311818010

J. Calvin Peace III

Born in Greenville, S.C. on Nov. 23, 1937, the Author, known as "Calvin" to his family and friends, was raised by his paternal grandparents. At the age of 8 he started working delivering the local newspaper and later became an usher in the local theater. In 1956 he graduated from Greenville High School and then served 6 months active duty with the U.S. Army. He competed his 71/2 more years of military service in the Army Reserve. To pay his way through four years at the local Furman University, Calvin started as a copy boy at the Greenville News and six months later was made reporter. He met Mary Russell at the newspaper and they have now been married 54 years and have two children, Brian and Sissy; eight grandchildren; one great-granddaughter and one dog, Jabez. The Peaces moved to Lynchburg, Va., where Calvin was named Copy Editor of the local paper. He became close friends with the late Dr. Jerry Falwell and attended church there. From Lynchburg the Peaces moved back to Anderson, S.C. and Calvin also served as News Editor and Political Reporter there. He was later named Managing Editor of The Bradenton (Florida) Herald and then became Director of Communications for Tropicana Products, Inc. Plagued with periodic bouts of active alcoholism, Calvin went through a rehab program at Dunklin Memorial Camp near Indiantown, Fl. and although his position was held open for him at Tropicana, he remained on the staff at Dunklin, where he counseled and taught for nearly five years. After leaving Dunklin, Calvin became a sales manager for Barrie Reed Buick/Nissan and later opened A Better Way In Christ Ministries for homeless men. He was a co-founder of Mustard Seed Ministries for families and he and his wife and son, started a furniture business now in its 33rd year of operation. Calvin still works daily with his son and family and counsels at the local jail with inmates twice a week. He has been sober for 25 years and is also an associate pastor at New Hope International Church, Inc. in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

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You Can Be Set Free From

From Alcohol And Drugs!

By J. Calvin Peace

Former Newspaper Editor And Director Of

Communications For Tropicana Products, Inc. -

Bound By Addictions For 40 Years

– Totally Free For 25 Years

(Success Guaranteed If Instructions Followed!)

Copyright © 2015 by J. Calvin Peace

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Table Of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 – Becoming An Addict

Chapter 2 - I Am Going To Be An Alcoholic!

Chapter 3 - God! I Need A Wife!

Chapter 4 – Together In The Psych Ward

Chapter 5 – Starting Over In Florida

Chapter 6 – A Shotgun To My Wife's Head

Chapter 7 – My Drinking Buddy Kills A Man

Chapter 8 – Help For The Homeless

Chapter 9 - $40,000 From The Mob

Chapter 10 – Addictions Left My Life

Chapter 11 – The Steps For Sobriety

Chapter 12 – Six Stages Of Recovery

Chapter 13 – Forgiveness And Unforgiveness

Introduction

Bound by addictions to both drugs and alcohol, an addict for 40 years, tells step by step how he became an addict, and how he has been clean and sober for 25 years, and how you or someone you love can have the same victory!

For the first time publicly, this former longtime newspaper reporter, editor and Director of Communications for Tropicana Products, Inc., the world's largest producer of chilled citrus juices and related products, tells how he dropped from owning a home on the water on Longboat Key, Florida, into a $100 rotten travel trailer with his wife, Mary, for five years.

He relates the horrors he bestowed upon himself, his wife and family and how one morning within a few hours within that small trailer, his life was changed forever!

Today at the age of 77, he goes to work every day and visits the local jail twice a week to counsel one on one with inmates in an effort to help them turn their lives around and never face having to go back to jail again.

The author believes that the same secrets he learned that eliminated his addictions, can also change the lifestyles of those caught up in a life of crime and if they apply these secrets, they can finally live a productive life in society and never be a so-called repeat offender again.

Amazingly, his wife of 54 years is still by his side and she and his children have all forgiven him!

During the transformation period of his life, the author witnessed and tells of a number of what he calls Miracles that repositioned him and his family back into Society and set up a future for him and his loved ones.

He has dedicated the rest of his life to helping and encouraging others who are suffering not only from addictions, but from any other pitfalls and traps that life can dish out to destroy lives.

Chapter 1

Becoming An Addict

Before I give you the steps on overcoming alcohol and drug addiction, I would like to tell you about the steps and years I took in becoming an alcoholic and drug addict.

It was not until later in life that I learned that the best definition for an alcoholic or drug addict is: Someone who allows the drinking of alcohol, or the taking of drugs, to interfere with their normal way of life. The average addict dies by the age of 52, unless he stops!

Born the only son and child of an alcoholic mother and father, who divorced when I was two, I was raised by my paternal grandparents, who lived on $35 a month.

We lived in a small, but growing southern town, and in a neighborhood that was considered middle class.

My best friends were from a young family already near the top of the social ladder, and I spent most of my time around them.

On weekends I would spend the night with these rich friends and they always had better food and toys than I had at my grandparent’s home.

Often my friends’ parents would take us along to cocktail parties, so we could play with their hosts’ children.

At about age 12, my friends and I would make a game out of sneaking up to a wheelbarrow full of ice and beer, at one of the cocktail parties, and sneaking a couple of cans of beer to divide among ourselves.

The thrill and excitement of getting high was great - especially for someone as shy as myself. And, because the parents’ were high and had alcohol on their breaths, they could never tell that we kids had been sipping alcoholic beverages also.

I was so shy that when a teacher told me I had to give a report in front of a class, I would make up any excuse I could to get out of it. I could not stand to talk to more than one person at a time.

I loved to smell the mixture of alcohol and perfume on my friends’ mother, as she would carry us to bed, thinking that we were asleep because our eyes were shut.

All the laughter and fun the grownups were apparently having at their parties, was very exciting, and I wanted to be just like them when I grew up.

At the age of almost two, when I was staying with my mother and her mother, who was an invalid, I remember my mother coming home drunk and getting into an argument with my grandmother.

In the heat of the argument, my mother slapped her mother and my grandmother screamed for me to call my paternal grandmother. As young as I was, I vividly remember all of this.

In those days, the telephones were not dial-up and a live operator would come on the phone and say: Number Please?. As a frightened toddler, I shouted into the phone for my other grandmother.

Mother took the phone away from me. I don’t remember much at that age, but I do remember other episodes involving alcohol. One involved me being in a car with mother and her friends, driving