“My goal is that the blog will provide people with a forum where they can share thoughts about a given topic,” says Stephen. “The internet is one of the greatest tools in connecting recovering addicts and alcoholics around the world, and if my blog helps just one person, then it is successful.”
Since the release of his book, Stephen has worked diligently in promoting the importance of people learning the real dangers of alcohol and substance abuse. He hopes his story will help others in reaching their own personal goals when it comes to their sobriety.
Rising Above the Influence is about Stephen’s personal battle with drugs and alcohol, and the long dark road addiction took him down. Stephen candidly recounts his indoctrination into the world of substance abuse as a young teenager; and the desperate, sometimes morbidly comical situations he endured to support his heavy addictions to heroin, prescription drugs, cocaine and alcohol.
“It took me twenty hard years of addiction—in which I lost my family, my job, my freedom, and ultimately myself—to get to where I am today,” says Stephen. “In my twenty years of sobriety I have lived a life I never thought was possible for someone like me, and I am living proof that the program works.”
Rising Above the Influence is his honest and inspiring account of the depths one man can fall to—and the heights he can achieve if only he reaches out a hand for help.
For more information about Stephen or for a brief synopsis of the book, please visit www.risingabovetheinfluence.net
The book is now available for sale at the following sites:
www.amazon.com
www.barnesandnoble.com
(Rising Above the Influence by Stephen Della Valle; ISBN: 0-9801776-0-
