DION WAS THIRTEEN when he started experimenting with cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs. Although he believed using these chemicals was innocent fun, by the time he was sixteen he was addicted to cocaine. For the next four years, drugs were his main focus in life. "I was either getting high or trying to score," he explains. "I dropped out of school. I quit my job. I lied. I cheated. I stole. And, I disrespected myself and my family, just to get high. I kept telling my family I'd stop. No way that was going to happen; the coke was in control. My life was a nightmare of my own making. Talk about bad choices. Who would have thought this would happen to me""

Dion is one of more than 30 million Americans who compulsively abuse chemicals that impair their well-being. These chemicals include alcohol, tobacco, and legal and illegal drugs...