I would binge drink for days.

I started drinking heavily after I returned from Iraq,

and I had insomnia really bad, so I would binge drink for days

and not sleep, and I'd lose track of time, it got so bad.

And one day I decided that I was hungry,

and I'd been binge drinking, and I'd been up for over 24 hours,

and I realized there wasn't really

anything in the apartment to eat.

So I hopped in my vehicle, and I drove down the street,

and I didn't realize it was, like,

Friday at one o'clock in the morning.

So, Utah Highway Patrol was trolling for DUI people,

and they pulled me over for not waiting a full two seconds

before making a lane change, even though I signaled.

So, it was a really mundane stop, but I knew, like, this is it.

And I was really honest with the officer,

and I told him, "Yes, I had been drinking."

And then he asked me how much, and I said,

"To be honest, I don't remember."

So, he pulled me out, and he gave me all the

field sobriety tests, and I passed them all.

And then he gave me a breathalyzer.

I mean, if you don't allow them

to give you a breathalyzer, then you lose your license

automatically for two years, in Utah.

So I was just like, "Yeah, breathalyze me."

And at first he thought his breathalyzer was broken,

so he asked his partner to go get his,

and then after they went and got his, he was like, "Wow."

I found out I blew a 0.182, and so I got arrested,

and that was kind of the indication.

The judge told me that the fact that I passed

the field sobriety tests said that, you know,

I had a really heavy drinking problem, that I had that much

motor control function despite being that intoxicated.

So, she highly recommended it, and so I went to the VA.