Recommendations of AlcoFreeLife participants

I’m very grateful to Trezvost Fund for help they provide for people with drinking problems, which gives & shows the road to the world of light & happiness. I had come here with the thought that they will help me & I wasn’t mistaken.
Here I understood that alcohol is not my companion in life. I had discovered & understood for myself what kind of consequences could await me in future. Everything went OK within my relationships both at work & at home. I began to analyze the situation sober, from different point of view.
Let God bless your long living & helping to such people as me. Good luck & prosperity to you!
Special acknowledgement is to supervisor of the course, Mr. Vitaliy Kovalenko, who had understandably explained the situation in which I had found myself & the ways of getting out of it.
He is very helpful for people & gives hope to believe in one self.

Bordyugov Alexander Egorovich, 1958
Married, three children, secondary education,
St’Petersburg, phone: 348-45-95

A child is born helpless & unprotected & is seeking care & love of parents. Only after years passed away, having become a conscious person, we understand what precious gift they had given to us – life. And how do we waste it! How many temptations are killing us! How many good people were dead because of alcohol! Alcohol insolently & solidly scrawled into my life. My days could be over unexpectedly & dishonestly. And I had a chance to come to Trezvost Fund. And there appeared the possibility to rebirth - to revive like a fresh flower from ashes of destroyed life. I am very grateful to the leader of the Fund, to Mr. Vitaliy Kovalenko, for the gift to revive, for priceless gift to be cured from harmful alcohol addiction. I am grateful for sober thoughts & for sober lighthouse in life. And I shall carry this light till the end of my days in my consciousness while sharing it with those loosing their way in alcohol darkness.

Slepushkina G. M., 1955
Divorced, two children,
Secondary education, builder,
St’Petersburg: 470-53-52

I had discovered club “ OPTIMALIST ” in 1991 & came there without any hesitation with my problem – smoking. Since then & until now I do not have any problems with it. But there had arisen another problem – alcohol. Together with my wife, we gratefully had recalled the club & decided to find it. And we succeeded in doing it. It’s so good that the club still exists & will exist. I’m grateful to the club, the Fund at present, for assistance & participation in my future life.

Mordovzev A. M., 1961
Married, one child,
Secondary education, security
SPB: 545-40-50

I am thankful to all people working at the Fund Trezvost. They had saved me personally & continue to take care about me. When I see such people I hope that Russia will revive for better life, stand from its knees & will be saved.
I am thankful to everybody who helped me to get up from my knees, I shall try my best not to let them down & if there are physical forces I shall try to help somebody else.

Breus V. S., 1937
Married, two children,
Higher education, engineer, retired, SPB: 304-80-28

We’d like to thank Trezvost Fund for assistance to all of us, for support & directions given. We all came here with significant problems, seeking for help, clutching at a straw. They helped us here in a way we had changed a lot. We shall keep our promise to grow the seed that they dropped into us!
Thank you very much!

Lapina I. I., higher education, engineer, 1961
Bagnibova T. V., higher education, 312-96-91
Ovchinnikov A. L., 1961, auto-mechanics
Lapina E. I., 1971, 352-31-70
Fadeev A. V., 1961, higher education
Ovchinnikova I. A., 1964, secondary education

I am 28 y. o. Many things had changed after the studies at the courses in my consciousness, the problems of alcohol & tobacco addiction became obvious, though I did not understand this before. I consider that this is very useful & necessary knowledge for everybody. I was lucky that I paid attention to this problem very early & didn’t suffer its worse consequences. I wish all young people understand this.

Ermilov A. V., 1977
Higher economic education
Married, one child, phone: 8-921-3032090

I am already 60 y.o. My wife & daughter had brought me to this club & I was lucky. I’ve passed all the course studies & this helped me a lot in the relationship towards alcohol & smoking. That’s why I’d like to thank the Fund for help to people who want to find & believe in themselves. This is a very important moment in the life of every person! It’s hard to believe but I had got rid of my smoking habit though I smoked for 40 years!

Kopitin A. I., 1945
Married, two children, retired
Higher education, SPB

We are the attendants of the courses for the second time. The first time we had visited the courses was in 1990. The result was brilliant! My husband had given up smoking & drinking. He completely had changed for better. Our family life turned into paradise without scandals, quarrels, tears, alcohol & smoking. Ten years of life had flied away invisibly quickly. We regained the feeling of self-esteem. During these years we helped many families to find their way to sober lives. But micro-stroke had occurred to the husband. Exactly doctor-cardiologist advised to the frightened husband to drink 100 grams per day for “vessels extension”.
So here it began! Slowly, by small portions, the husband started to drink “medicine”. But the improvements in health didn’t come.
But again here came lies, scandals, fights in our house. The portions became bigger, it was normal to drink cognac, brandy, wine, beer in the evenings at home.
And the husband had decided to attend the courses for the second time.
I address to all the attendants-be devoted to your persuasions!
We were close to loose our family!
The years will pass, you will become stronger, you will feel more stable!
Never think of 50 grams as of a small thing! It is death!

Andreeva Irina (wife of Andreev O. N., 1960
Higher education, lawyer, two children, SPB: 463-16-44
 


I drank heavily. Some time I could resist. I was shaking before having a drink, I couldn’t resist it, I could drink up to 2-3 bottles of wine per day. I understood that this was a deadlock, death. I was factually picked up from the street where I lived for a certain time.
Autumn 2005 was really warm & dry. The day was without a date, most likely work day. I rush outdoors from the basement. My eyes are tearing, I cough to clear the throat. Houses & people are floating, my eyes are in scales. I go to the store as usual. Devils are insisting on one thought – to buy wine & get better. At that time I was strolling in the downtown & saw that there exists such an organization. Having met the supervisor one more time I heard – come & we shall help you!
There was complete mood – like a voice in a desert, like a straw for a drowning man.
Nowadays, for me who had given up to drink & to smoke, who had again regained his family & work, it is necessary to see clearly this borderline, separating normal human life from devilish nightmare.
Taking for instance, real situations two weeks ago & mainly by the abilities to convey the state of a person in this semi-fainted case.
I could not even imagine such a big contrast & moreover couldn’t think about it, sitting there in the basement two weeks ago, that I will quit drinking, smoking, start to live full-bodied family life, go to work & plan my future. I shall by all means tell all the people about this Fund & highly recommend it to those who really need it.

Hrenov A. A., 1960
Higher education, daughter
Left for his motherland in Ulianovsk

I would like to tell you my story. I began to drink beautiful, together with the girls, visiting restaurants. I went to the restaurant in the evening & went to work in the morning & this circled every day. I began to robber & steel & I had seen faraway places like jail many times. I drank heavily so I thought that not more than 5 years are left for living. Otherwise they kill me or I die in prison camps. Police all had known me.
Life had put its choice in front of me: die or quit drinking. I was shaken in the morning so that I had to drink holding the glass with two hands. I coped with hang-over by drinking everything: eau de cologne, lotion, spirits, vodka, everything which was under my hand. One morning when I awakened, I put all flammable liquid in the house into one glass as my mother was a doctor & drank it. I understood that I had to do something. Now I don’t remember what woman had given me the address where they could help me.
When I came to the first classes I felt really bad, I was shaking. I went outdoors & burst into crying. I came home & started to do my homework. After the third class unexpectedly for myself I had written down that alcohol is poison & it was such of a sudden that I didn’t want to have a drink. After completion of the course I met my friends who were surprised & I started to get distanced from them.
From my old company I had brought seven people to the courses. So destiny had led me here again, I brought my friend & hope that he will quit drinking forever. I am very grateful for people who are doing such useful activity & are helping others to climb over this horror.

Ivanov A. I., SPB, 2005

I would like to tell how I was in captivity of heroine, in its dependence, slavery. You can call it as you like, let’s say “marsh”, which swallows you up, deeper every time. It was possible to get out of it only with help of the “rope” dropped by the Trezvost Fund & to realize worthless life & understand by sober mind that the years lived with heroine are no more than illusion, disease, lies, scandals at home. These are the years pulled out of life. I am writing & thinking if a chance didn’t let my death happen because it could have happened dozen of times, like it had happened to my acquaintances, but had given me one more possibility, the last one I guess, & showed me the way to sobriety in order we turn back to normal life & help stray people. There are so many interesting, kind, good things in life & the main thing is to stick to sober way of living, to be proud of it.
It’s so great to be free & not to be dependent on somebody or something. We shall live happily for many years!

Yakovlev Sergei, 23 y.o.
Orehovo-Zuevo, Moscow region
Phone: 56-127; May 2005

I left home at the age of 14 y.o. & showed up there very seldom. I lived here & there, earned my bread & butter in dishonest way. I tried heroine for the first time when I was 15 y.o. During the first month I made injections daily, I felt irresistible traction to it, but I was afraid of “break-ups” & started to save myself with alcohol. I didn’t try heroine for several years then. I had found a job, time had passed & I decided to prick myself once again. I had lost weight, glance became inhuman, kind of glassy, my clothes were dirty. Being 22 y. o. I had tried many methods but all of them were of medical character. Next time when I felt “break-up”, I decided to simplify it with vodka. I was drinking 15 days without any stop, “break-ups” were finished but there arrived hang-over. Once, in a moment of lucidity, I had found a newspaper with an article about one guy’s destiny like mine. He told how did it happen. I understood that sobriety is what I need & started over. Here I found much of important information & received a tool which will help to resist any poison. I am convinced that all the best is in the future & wish it to everybody!

Oparin Kirill, 23 y. o.
Ekaterinburg, June 2004