By HLR Staff Writer Lisa Hope
- John Live From The Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010
John Hollis host of Rockers in Recovery tonight at 9PM EST on WWNN 1470 AM Radio will be packed full of musical guests talking about the upcoming free concert in Pompano Beach Florida on February 12, 2011 at the Sober Hotel called the Seaside Inn.
John who is in recovery from addiction stopped using December 31, 2006 when he had a moment of clarity while living under a bridge on 79Th Street located in Miami Florida. He was under that bridge on and off for 13 years. In his words crack cocaine and alcohol were his higher power and they made his day to day life choices.
Losing his family and friends to addiction the only people that hung in was his girl friend of 17 years and friends in 12 step meetings, which he would go to only to panhandle and get fed by recovering addicts that understood he was in a life and death struggle that could go either way. Towards the end of his active addiction John had developed staff infection on his arms and was told by doctors he was only days from death if he had not had medical treatment that lasted for a week in the Delray Medical Center.
You would think this was his wake up call but no he left the hospital and went back to Miami where he continued to use for another nine months. December 31,2006 “I was sitting on the side of a building on 79Th street called The Little River Club a 12 step club house that saved my life more times then not in 13 years on the streets, and it all flashed before me that no one had done this to me. I was filled with years of resentments and hate and those moments began to not seem so important in the light of my life. That day I began my journey to a new life with the help of many friends and what began my awakening to what I know now was God”