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This study selected a male who maintaining and staying his life as sober during the last 20 years after recovered from drug addicts, and used narrative inquiry method suggested by Clandinin and Connelly(2000) in order to explore the life-time events and recovery experiences. Especially this method pursued three dimensional narrative inquiry spaces such as internal orientation, external orientation, and from the past to the future. The composed story of the study participant was the first, ‘a blight childhood', the second, ‘the bosom of the family, but revolving door of the mental hospital', the third, ‘reflection of the empty shell life', the last, ‘arms around each other's shoulders in the society' The drug was a substitute for the study participant as escape from domestic violence and as calming down uneasiness, reaching to a homelessness, but eventually finding self-identity and free from drug addicts through spiritual awakening. Based on the study findings, implications and directions for drug addicts’successful rehabilitation were suggested such as family education, follow-up care, rehabilitation training, and building of self-identity through a success case.