http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/suffolk/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8611000/8611987.stm
Chris Hibble is a 37 year old man in recovery from alcohol and drug addiction, after receiving professional support on a rehabilitation programme Chris is now gearing up to run the London Marathon.
"It was a lot harder to battle with drugs than it is to run a marathon," said Chris, who's training for the big event in the capital on 25 April.
"Chris's addiction story started when he was 11 years old and had his first drink. By the age of 16 he'd tried his first drugs. He took them socially as part of the rave scene and tried everything, including ecstasy and heroin, although he says alcohol was the drug that eventually got him.
"It spiralled out of control. I enjoyed drinking and taking drugs when I first started and before long I didn't have the ability to stop by myself. I was forever losing jobs, being in A&E and in trouble with the police. It caused devastation and misery and pain to everyone that I was really close to - my family and friends."
He's now self-employed as a painter and decorator and has a wife and two children.
"It came to a point where I could no longer function with or without them, contemplated taking my life and decided to get some help."
In 2006 Chris did just that and turned his life around to live free from the constraints of his addiction and choose the direction he wants his life to go in....
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