By Liz Freeman, April 28, 2020, Naples Daily News
He bought a four-pack of tall Budweiser at a convenience store after work one hot afternoon. Normally he gets a Big Gulp.
“I had been clean and sober quite a while,” Shepherd, 63, said. “What’s a couple going to do to me?”
He got home to his apartment in Sarasota and drank most of the beer. He soon realized he'd messed up big time. He is now in a residential treatment program in Collier County.
It’s possible the unknowns of the novel coronavirus triggered him to become complacent with his recovery, he said. Perhaps it led him astray to buy the beer.
Coronavirus has created new challenges for people struggling with addiction, like those who are lack the resources to access alcohol and narcotics anonymous meetings that have now moved online. Shepherd says he's thankful to have a job and living situation lined up for when he moves back to Sarasota after leaving Crossroads.
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