Omak
Drug Court Grad Gets His Life Back
Excerpt: Ira Michel remembers the moment he realized he was hopelessly addicted to drugs and alcohol.
“I was sitting in my car, a glass pipe in one hand, a bottle of whiskey in the other. I took a drink of whiskey and said to myself, ‘OK, I’m done.’ But a minute later, I picked it back up,” he said recently from his office at Okanogan County Juvenile Detention. Again and again, he tried to take just one more drink, one more hit, and set that bottle and pipe down forever.
But he just couldn’t do it.
