Drug Addiction Stories & Info

A 2012 article in People magazine reveals a side of pop star singer Fergie that is not her usual profile – a woman who would like to stay home nights, instead of travelling around the world, living in hotels, out of a suitcase, delivering entertainment. She says that having a baby is not out of the question, as she would like to settle down, with Josh Duhamel, her husband of three years, a rock strong relationship in Hollywood terms, that goes back to 2004.

Fergie wants to do things like watch football, basketball, to have free time, time without schedules in which she can do her own thing.

Having days when she has no schedule she says is a definite change – one that will be nice and refreshing.

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Sometimes we see successful singers and rock bands as living the dream – their life an endless party, topped with big dollar incomes. There is the idea that once off-stage these celebrities can do what they want. The reality can be endless rehearsals, a need to keep fit, to maintain a perfect appearance, to wind down and get some sleep before the next performance.

Many stars have resolved the problem of getting a much needed spike of energy exactly as and when required by using methamphetamine drugs, using sedatives and alcohol to come “down“. Whatever is happening in the celebrities life – no matter – the show must go on. Drugs are often seen as essential to top performance, and for recreation.

 Fergie, of the Black Eyed Peas is a former crystal meth addict, who says she has beaten her addiction. Although sober from crystal meth, Fergie still uses alcohol and every day continues to be a battle against substance abuse and addictive behavior.

In mid 2011, Fergie on behalf of group members will.i.am, Taboo and apl.de.ap announced a separation and an indefinite “break’ for the highly successful hip hop band Black Eyed Peas – saying it is not the end of the group but “time out”.

Black Eyed Peas began in Los Angeles 1995, developed by will.i.am and apl.de.ap who had been rappers together since 1988. Taking Fergie on board, the group came to fame in 2003 with the recording Elephunk and have since sold an estimated 56 million albums and singles, with extended tours and charity performances worldwide.

Fergie joined the band BEP in 2002, after being with Wild Orchid 1992 to 2001.

 It was while Fergie was with Wild Orchid that she used, and was addicted to crystal meth. Born in 1975, Fergie was the model daughter of Catholic teacher parents, who were also mo-town fans, taking their daughter to see The Temptations and The Four Tops, when she was 10.

Fergie was a straight A student, a cheerleader, and girl scout. She also has said that as from her 18th birthday she went on a wild spree – of drugs and sexual experience, joining Wild Orchid an all girl band that enjoyed moderate success until their record label declined to release a 3rd album that they had recorded, causing Fergie to leave Wild Orchid in 2001.

Frustration with the performance of Wild Orchid, and enmeshed in a meth drug problem, Fergie  joined up with Black Eyed Peas.

Four years after joining BEP, Fergie was interviewed by Blues and Soul, in which she reveals that as a suburban teenager she developed a fascination for guns, rap and the “gangsta” life, it being her rebellious nature that got her into Wild Orchid, wild living and ice.

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Of her meth drug addiction, Fergie spoke, in 2006, to Time Magazine, saying

“It was the hardest boy friend that I ever had to break up with. It’s the drug that’s addicting. But it’s why you start doing it in the first place that’s interesting. 

A lot of it was being a child actor, I learned to suppress feelings. 

When Wild Orchid ceased to provide the excitment that Fergie craved, she turned to using Ecstasy, attended raves, eventually getting into using crystal meth, becoming paranoid, insecure, putting her life at risk buying meth drug on the street.

 In 2008, Fergie gave an interview to ABC news -” When Bad Meth Trips Never End”, with Fergie saying how she painted her windows black at one time – so that “they” could not see in.

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Fergie is keen on hypnotherapy and has used it to help overcome her crystal meth addiction and for tension relief. Fergie today is proud of fact that she has beaten her addiction to crystal meth although she still struggles on a daily basis with addictive issues.

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It is in some ways a victory, but also a halfway house – clearly Fergie has chosen at this time to accept something less than the complete recovery from substance abuse and addiction that is available from comprehensive alcohol and drug addiction recovery programs in North America.

No one today, and particularly those who are thinking in terms of pregnancy and starting a family, needs to spend the rest of their life in the shadow of meth drug addiction, or compensatory alcoholism, continuing to deal on a daily basis with unresolved emotional issues, with continuing substance dependence.

Narconon provides complete detoxification from meth drug and its metabolites that remain in the body for years, using the world recognised Hubbard sauna method for body detoxification.

Using Narconon comprehensive methods for addiction recovery, people can recover from drug use and resolve the issues that they have that lead to continuing substance abuse, and the possibility of relapse.

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Using a Narconon program, gets substance abusers really clean – and ready to start a happy, new life that is free of substance abuse and dependence – at any time of the year.

Here’s a drug addiction success story in reverse. Instead of a top athlete falling into drug use and ruin, and then pulling himself up by the boot straps – this is the story of Rob Archuleta – for nine years addicted to meth, who became a top athlete – a runner.

Now four years into recovery from his meth addiction, Rob Archuleta is the founder of a self help sporting group that is called “Addicts to Athletes”.

The informal group meets on different fields once a week. There is half an hour of discussion, motivation, and companionship – then each person goes out to exercise as part of the group – walking or running – depending on their level of personal fitness.

Archuleta, who used to live for the next fix of meth drug, now lives for the “runner’s high” and has never before felt fitter, or better than he does today.

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 There are many text books and scholarly works that refer to the benefits of exercise for fitness, and tension relief.

Nothing is quite so persuasive or eloquent as the words of someone who is actually out there doing it, putting the “words” into practice – making exercise an important part of their life.

Says Archuleta – ” I just felt better about myself. I was not depressed and I was not having anxiety, and if I did feel stressed, I would just go out and run.”

When anxiety and tension, or painful depression is present in the mind, it has a very direct impact on the body. Anxiety fuels the “flight or fight” response - a rush of adrenalin, poised for movement and action.

 Anxiety attacks often come on with no apparent cause, and there is no ready means to “discharge” all the potential energy that anxiety generates. It makes perfect sense – and is biologically sound to act out as nature originally intended we should do when feeling stressed and tense – get into some action and movement.

 The benefits of an exercise program at any fitness level is that there is always a sense of achievement – of having done your personal best, plus there is the support, the synergy and energy of the “group” that helps with motivation.

For many addicts, and people in recovery from their addiction there is a history of having been or felt like a “failure”. Drug addiction is associated with feelings of low self esteem.

Running and exercise are not only productive of fitness, new optimism and energy – but people can actually achieve euphoric effects – called a runner’s high that can assist people to keep going with their fitness program – and keep off the drugs.

It is to be commended that Archuleta has not only thought in terms of his own recovery, but has reached out to others, and increased his social circle, bringing benefits to all.

 Comprehensive alcohol and drug recovery programs include a moderate exercise regime in the context of complete addiction recovery. Exercise promotes a healthy appetite for good food, and promotes healthy sleep and relaxation. Exercise also helps the body to rid itself of drug  metabolites and toxins remaining in the system that contribute to long term cravings, make people feel irritable – and more prone to drug use.

People into exercise groups as a means to drug recovery might like to consider taking their recovery one step further.

 Two aspects of the comprehensive alcohol and drug recovery program can assist Addicts to Athletes, and others get more into their recovery.

Exercise also comes highly recommended to help recovery from addiction to cocaine, as well as meth drug.

Firstly the sauna detox helps and supports the exercise, helps to remove residual drugs and toxins from the body. Using sauna eliminates toxins, and reduces cravings.

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Secondly, there is a set of life enhancement courses, that helps build self esteem, social confidence and allows people to work through painful issues from their past that can result in compulsive ways of behaving – and addictive drug use.

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All forms of compulsive behavior are a response to internal stress – often caused by unresolved issues from our past – and a lack of life skills to deal with the problems of the moment.

Comprehensive life improvement courses complement any exercise program that enables you to “let off steam“, that relaxes and helps the body to recover from drug abuse.

The aim of comprehensive addiction recovery is to eliminate cravings and compulsive behavior. People that originally took exercise in a compulsive way will find that the more into true recovery they get, the less compulsive is their behavior. They begin to have more control.

Meth is a hard drug to give up, it is both physically and emotionally addictive. Comprehensive drug addiction programs are experienced with meth drug.

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Using a regular exercise plan, and a comprehensive drug recovery program can get former addicts from being “in recovery” to being able to say “I’ve recovered completely from my addiction.” 

I breathed in the smell of the salt water. I looked out over the beautiful sunrise and I counted my blessings. A year ago I could not have imagined being here. A year ago I was too addicted to crystal meth and could not see past my own desire for it. It didn’t matter that my daddy was pretty secure in his holdings in a major company and that I had all my bills and then some taken care of. I only knew I was getting my fix and that was all that mattered. Till I met Crissy.

Crissy was a single mom of three kids. She waited on me and my friends at the diner we went to when we were slumming. That meant we were waiting on the dealer. Crissy was a little older than us but she was friendly. I thought she was this sweet little waitress who just had a hard life. I didn’t yet know about the warrior in her.

One day the dealer was running late and we were getting fidgety. He wanted us to meet him at the regular spot (finally) but I was pissed off about having to wait. I told him if he wanted his money he would come to us. He grumbled and I hung up but not before telling him I knew another place to score. He quickly called back and said he would meet us in ten minutes at the diner we were at.

He came in and I saw a complete 180 in Crissy. She walked up to him and in a loud tone let him know he was not wanted there. He tried to act all big and bad but as Crissy stepped towards him, he jumped back. She was barely 5’5 and he was nearly 6 feet but you could see who the scaredy cat was and it wasn’t her.

He looked at us, shrugged and left. Crissy came over and asked “Were you girls seriously waiting for Big Steel?” Then she went over, locked the diner (we were the only customers at that time) and came back and sat down with the three of us. She told her story to us.

Crissy owned the diner, she wasn’t just the waitress. Big Steel was her cousin. He and her husband were friends throughout school. One of Big Steel’s drug deals went bad and her husband had gotten in the way of Big Steel and a bullet about four years earlier. He wasn’t into drugs, he was just driving home from work but he saw Big Steel in trouble and pulled over to help.

Crissy bought the little diner with part of the life insurance policy her husband had insisted on setting up. The rest was in savings for her children. It wasn’t much but it was a start. She looked at me. “You need help.” I hung my head and nodded. Something about Crissy and her courage got to us that night. We let her call our parents. We were sophomores at college out having fun on summer break but we still didn’t know how to take care of ourselves. Our parents came to get us and we all went into a confidential rehab treatment program.

I watched the sun rise as I sent another quiet thank you across the miles to Crissy. I knew my dad had set up an investment for Crissy as a thank you as well. I heard Big Steel finally ended up with one of those bullets. Guess he didn’t have the friends he used to. Crissy is doing well and, thanks to her, so are my two friends and myself. I don’t take my daddy’s money for granted anymore. More importantly, I don’t take life for granted, either.

I breathed in the smell of the salt water. I looked out over the beautiful sunrise and I counted my blessings. A year ago I could not have imagined being here. A year ago I was too addicted to crystal meth and could not see past my own desire for it. It didn’t matter that my daddy was pretty secure in his holdings in a major company and that I had all my bills and then some taken care of. I only knew I was getting my fix and that was all that mattered. Till I met Crissy.

Crissy was a single mom of three kids. She waited on me and my friends at the diner we went to when we were slumming. That meant we were waiting on the dealer. Crissy was a little older than us but she was friendly. I thought she was this sweet little waitress who just had a hard life. I didn’t yet know about the warrior in her.

One day the dealer was running late and we were getting fidgety. He wanted us to meet him at the regular spot (finally) but I was pissed off about having to wait. I told him if he wanted his money he would come to us. He grumbled and I hung up but not before telling him I knew another place to score. He quickly called back and said he would meet us in ten minutes at the diner we were at.

He came in and I saw a complete 180 in Crissy. She walked up to him and in a loud tone let him know he was not wanted there. He tried to act all big and bad but as Crissy stepped towards him, he jumped back. She was barely 5’5 and he was nearly 6 feet but you could see who the scaredy cat was and it wasn’t her.

He looked at us, shrugged and left. Crissy came over and asked “Were you girls seriously waiting for Big Steel?” Then she went over, locked the diner (we were the only customers at that time) and came back and sat down with the three of us. She told her story to us.

Crissy owned the diner, she wasn’t just the waitress. Big Steel was her cousin. He and her husband were friends throughout school. One of Big Steel’s drug deals went bad and her husband had gotten in the way of Big Steel and a bullet about four years earlier. He wasn’t into drugs, he was just driving home from work but he saw Big Steel in trouble and pulled over to help.

Crissy bought the little diner with part of the life insurance policy her husband had insisted on setting up. The rest was in savings for her children. It wasn’t much but it was a start. She looked at me. “You need help.” I hung my head and nodded. Something about Crissy and her courage got to us that night. We let her call our parents. We were sophomores at college out having fun on summer break but we still didn’t know how to take care of ourselves. Our parents came to get us and we all went into a confidential rehab treatment program.

I watched the sun rise as I sent another quiet thank you across the miles to Crissy. I knew my dad had set up an investment for Crissy as a thank you as well. I heard Big Steel finally ended up with one of those bullets. Guess he didn’t have the friends he used to. Crissy is doing well and, thanks to her, so are my two friends and myself. I don’t take my daddy’s money for granted anymore. More importantly, I don’t take life for granted, either.