Groenewald, Daniel

By mid-1990 Daniel Groenewald's cocaine addiction was destroying his life. He sought help at a rehab centre that told him he had one of three choices: incarceration, rehabilitation, or death. Defiant of any of these being inevitable he decided to overcome cocaine by his own willpower-and he did. But many other addictions continued to plague him. A decade later he attended an AA meeting for the first time. The creed that addicts are powerless over addiction went grossly against his grain; after all he had beaten cocaine. But he realized that quitting cocaine had not cured his addictive personal...