Lisa F. Smith is a writer and a lawyer in New York City. Sober for more than ten years, she is pas­sion­ate about break­ing the stig­ma of drug and alco­hol addic­tion. Lisa for­mer­ly prac­ticed cor­po­rate finance law at a lead­ing inter­na­tion­al law firm. She is a grad­u­ate of North­west­ern Uni­ver­si­ty and Rut­gers School of Law.