Ali Reunanen

“I drank alcoholically already as a 14-year-old. I continued until I was 37, when I was last arrested on April 1, 1994. That is my real birthday, because that's when I started living.”

“Drug offenses. I was held in custody for three months and then I felt terribly bad and realized that I needed help.”

“We have had enough of people who have pointed and told us what we should do. I don't believe in helping others so that I take over the responsibility, because then I diminish them in their own life.”