O'Connor overcame alcoholism after being hospitalized in 1978.

While there, he addressed a local Democratic Committee, reminiscing about his childhood and how his adopted mother overcame alcoholism.

A woman struggles to overcome alcoholism.

He battled and overcame alcoholism, worked in construction, built his own cleaning business and became mayor of Yonkers, New York's fourth-largest city.

In Doyle's novel, a Dublin woman struggles to overcome alcoholism and abuse.

The person will probably follow a standard 12-step program to overcome alcoholism.

He had overcome alcoholism but was susceptible to bouts of depression.

His website states that his religious conversion helped him overcome alcoholism.

He adds quickly that his mother later left home, overcame alcoholism and returned sober three years later.

Peabody has served in the Navy since its earliest days; he also overcame alcoholism by sheer will power, having come from a family of alcoholics.