Around this time Bryan Hullihen moved back to Jupiter Florida with his friend who's name was also Brian. Bryan rented a room from his friend's mother for a small amount of money that he paid each week. It was a good thing that it wasn't a lot of money because he didn't make much. Bryan got a job working for a landscaping company where he worked each day during the week and quickly proved his worth to the organization. At this point in Bryan's life he would not touch alcohol and truly believed his problem to solely be that concerning the use of alcohol which is exactly why he found it so easy to decide to start smoking pot again at twenty-one years old. Every day Bryan went to work he would see so many of the people that he worked with smoking pot with seeming impunity and, with the belief that his problem was solely alcohol, he found easy to jump off that cliff one morning with the rest of his crew. That day was a breeze for Bryan as he recalls barely thinking about how little he liked his job or his boss. When Bryan got home from work that day he had no feelings of doing anything wrong and sincerely believed that smoking pot was fine as long as he didn't touch any alcohol. The faith in this delusion carried Bryan through on the marijuana maintenance program for about two years and he was able to find success in business which further strengthened the fallacy that his only problem was alcohol. After those two years Bryan began experimenting with MDMA which was introduced to him by his girlfriend at the time and, yet again, since it wasn't alcohol Bryan thought it would be fine. At first, things were good. Business was good and the feelings produced by the drug lended credence to the name by which it was known, "Ecstasy". In the beginning Mr. Hullihen would buy ten pills on a Friday and that would last him and his girlfriend until Sunday morning. After a year those same ten pills didn't last the night. Over time Bryan was high on MDMA more than he wasn't and it wasn't long after that when Bryan began needing Xanax to come down from the ecstasy so he could show up to run his business on Monday. One day Bryan was finishing up a job for the owner of the Florida Bobcats, a professional arena football team, when the idea came to him that going to the beach and hanging out with friends would be cool. Then the memory came of a time when he would be partying with friends at the beach while getting drunk and listening to sublime. That day Bryan got so drunk that he almost ruined his relationship completely with his girlfriend and was completely bed ridden due to alcohol poisoning for three days. It didn't take long for Bryan to lose everything for the second time in his life and he was only twenty-four. Luckily for Bryan his sister worked at a treatment center in South Florida where she ran the finance department and was connected enough to get him a scholarship to the program as Bryan had no money left. Bryan Hullihen was finally ready to admit defeat after only drinking again for a year and accepted the help offered by his sister. Bryan was off to treatment but little did he know that the real suffering was yet to come.
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