At the age of 18, a young man lay on his hospital bed watching his mother vent her agony and disappointment to another visitor. The teen was lucky to be alive. Christopher Dickie was a drug addict who’d overdosed and survived. By the end of high school, he’d already been arrested 14 times and had lost 20 jobs. From his hospital bed, he watched his mom grapple with how her sweet boy could suddenly change so drastically. It was incomprehensible to her. He knew something had to change. “I felt hopeless. There was no way out,” he told Love What Matters, adding that he knew his mom’s words were “the things she would say at my funeral.” At that time, if you’d told Christopher he’d become sober, and stay sober for the next 13 years, he probably wouldn’t have believed you. Upon entering recovery, he had a change of heart, however. He said he’d …