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I'm a recovering alcoholic so I should be home.

Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.

I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.

I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was.

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.

I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

Yeah, I admit to myself, yeah, I'm an alcoholic.

I'm clean and sober.

My mother is still battling alcoholism.