Richard D. is a current master that has successfully retained his pledge of abstinence. His story, one of many, accurately exhibits the Stages of Change model as it was clear that he experienced each stage respectively. In the beginning, Richard mentioned that no matter how much times he drank, he always knew he would quit at one point-he just didn’t know when. From this piece of evidence alone, Richard is displaying characteristic of the pre-contemplation stage. Furthermore, after getting married and an infant on the way, Richard’s drinking increased. He’d often go to bars for hours at a time and revealed that he went out drinking to escape everything. The amount of drinks ranged from six to ten beers a night. In this stage, Richard is not
