Thanks for joining me for this week's episode of One For The Road. This week I am joined by Sam Harrison. Sam is a retired professional rugby union player from Hinckley, Leicestershire, and is now 200 days sober. He played over 180 Games for Leicester Tigers and represented England at the Under 16, 18, and 20's level. Sam retired from playing professionally in 2019 to become a carpenter and moved with his young family to Byron Bay, Australia where he currently resides. What began as a sip of his mum's gin & tonic aged 5 and a strange fascination with alcohol, by age 16 Sam was binge drinking heavily every weekend without fail and more and more during the week. Despite living out a successful rugby career winning 2 premierships and winning Leicester Tigers Player of the Year in 2016 - Sam was fighting an internal battle with a worsening addiction to alcohol which with the arrival of 3 children - became completely out of control. Since Sam's sobriety, He now spends his time Surfing, playing rugby for his local team 'Casuarina" playing music in a band and producing music from home. Sam has also started helping friends and family who are potential problem drinkers and is very keen to help others with addiction.