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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Ed Biittig — Lessons in recovering from alcoholism
Description: Ed Biittig, who is 72, has been in recovery from alcoholism for over 46 years. He started drinking at age 13 and by the time he was 26 had totaled five cars in drunk-driving crashes — yet was never arrested. For one of those crashes, Biittig says in this week’s podcast, “I had my 3-year-old son in my car. That crash, I could have killed my own son.” Biittig was finally arrested for driving while intoxicated, after nearly swerving into a police car, and tested .20 for blood-alcohol content. He says that East Greenbush Judge Patrick Maney probably saved his life. Judge Maney gave him a choice...