John Larroquette shares his journey to sobriety.

It sure would have made for a good story had John Larroquette been able to tell those attending his speech that living in Grand Lake, as he did in 1968, was the catalyst for his sobriety.  But it did not figure into his recovery from addiction.

Grand Lake was "glorious," he said, but "for an addict, everything eventually sours" and so after a year spent bartending and getting high on LSD, he moved on.

Sobriety wouldn't come for about 14 years until Feb. 5, 1982.

"I grew up in the 1960s," he recalled. "Sex, drugs and rock and roll were just being born, and I indulged in them all. Heavily."

His decision to end his dependence on drugs and alcohol came after what he described as an out-of-body experience while spending time with a fellow addict. 

"It was like I was standing back, looking at the two of us sitting at that table. I thought, 'what a waste, what a loser' and then got up, went home and that was that."

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"Substance abuse, isn't going to go away.  Money won't solve the problem, though. What will change is how we treat it." noted Arapahoe House CEO David Murphy,
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John Larroquette was a favorite television personality for me before quitting the cable vision habit and banishing television from my life.  Not watching television means not getting thousands of marketing messages from the sponsors of commercial t.v. that are beamed at you 24 hours a day.







Davidson: Actor John Larroquette shares his journey to sobriety
Posted: 10/04/2012 12:01:00 AM MDT
By Joanne Davidson
The Denver Post

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