Drug Addiction Stories & Info

When someone we love is hurting, as with a drug addiction, it is natural to want to help. In fact, most family members would go to any length to help someone they love beat drug addiction. So, it is not the lack of concern but the lack of knowledge that prevents getting real help for the person addicted to drugs. Finding out someone we love has an addiction can stir up anger in ourselves. Anger is natural but it will not get you too far with the drug addict. Overall, being honest about knowing about the addiction and trying to stay positive is the best thing you can do.

"It never helps the addict to cover up their addiction."

It never helps the addict to cover up their addiction. It never helps to hide their actions while under the influence of drugs. It must be made clear to them that the only way to a clear and better life is by ridding their body of the drugs. Hope IS waiting on the other side. Never let the drug addict drags you down with them. As hard as it is, you must maintain as much normalcy in your life despite what the drug addict does. This does not mean you should not be supportive. Offer them all of the help you can…to get clean! Outside of that, do not let them drag your life down to their drug addicted level. Drug addictions destroy entire families and entire communities. It is only by helping the addict see that there is help and there is hope that they can break free of the addiction. Their addiction only allows them to see the pain and misery. This is part of the addiction. Keep telling them that they can be happy again once they are free from the addiction.

Loving a drug addict is never easy. There is pain involved and it is difficult not to let yourself be dragged down into the pit with them. Ultimately, they must make the decision. Be there for them no matter how many times they try and fail, as long as they keep trying! The biggest way you can help is by letting them know you are there when they decide they have had enough. Also be clear that you will not lie or cover up for them and they must take responsibility for their own actions. It isn’t easy, but it is the only way to help an addict see what path they must take.

Although the cocaine addict doesn’t intend to draw everyone into the addiction, they do.  Cocaine is one of the most rampant addictions in today’s society and it is also one of the hardest addictions to break.  People start out with it innocently enough; say, at a party, but

Cocaine addiction destroys families.

then it begins to control every aspect of their lives.  They begin to lie; cheat, steal and soon they are people their families do not even recognize.  For someone addicted to cocaine, their relationships suffer, but so does their health.  Weight loss, malnutrition and dehydration are common ill effects of cocaine.  The cocaine addict may think they are fooling people but the signs are very obvious.

Everything in the addict’s life, with the exception of the drug becomes unimportant.  The person who may once have been a straight “A” student now has no interest in attending school.  The young man on his way to being the youngest CEO at his firm may now have lost his job.  The good news is; it can be beaten.  It may take several tries and a lot of determination, but it can be beaten.  There are those who were once lost to cocaine addiction who have made it through and are now leading happy, healthy lives.  The more support they get from loved ones, the better their chances of overcoming the addiction.  It is important for loved ones to support them in their cause to overcome the cocaine addiction but never to cover up for them or make excuses for them.

No one starts out with the intention of becoming a cocaine addict.  Often, it happens so quickly that even the abuser is unaware that it is happening.  Family and friends must stay strong throughout the process of trying to beat the cocaine addiction.  Help the addict by letting him or her know that you will support them in quitting cocaine but you will not enable them to continue to abuse the drug.  Try to stay positive and upbeat no matter how angry the addict may become.  There is a better life on the other end of cocaine addiction and all it takes is perseverance and determination to get there.  The important thing is to seek out help.  If it is a family member, then seek out help for them.  Someone has to make the first move and it is not always the addict that does it.

I had made it through the two weeks in rehab, but I was not convinced I was getting any better, I still wanted to use drugs – but I convinced myself to stick with it, as it was some good clean time.  The therapists poked and prodded and were digging deep to help me understand why my disease took hold, even though the whole disease thing did not sit well with me.  The thing that confused me was that I made the choice to do drugs; no one in my family ever did drugs and my mother was not a drug user or drinker while she was pregnant.  I just found it hard to believe that I could develop a disease based on a personal choice that I made.  I was going to stick with the help however, because maybe they could get somewhere with me and I could learn some new ways to stay clean.   I never though rehab would be a miracle cure for me, but I did think it would give me some new insight into why this happened and how I can change for good.

I managed to get into some good routines while in treatment and got my own health back to normal, it was a nice

I managed to get drug-free.

feeling being rested on a daily basis and actually eating right for a change.  The days were passing by very quickly, and I decided not to call my parents. I figured if I have come this far, I would wait until I finished the program all together.  The therapy turned out to be quite helpful as I managed to locate some triggers that pushed me back to drug use and I handled some of the traumatic events that happened in my life, overall I felt good, but there was still something that was there, something that I could not put my finger on.  I knew why I started using drugs and I figured out why I continued, but for some reason I was not really fully happy with what I saw in the mirror everyday.

My graduation day was coming and I seemed to be ready according to the doctors.  They would help me get set up in a transition house to help develop further skills and help with the transition into society.  I was still doubting something, but could not figure out what it was; I would see how the transition house went and take it from there.  After I graduated I decided to call my parents and to my surprise they were quite relieved to even hear from me and even happier that I had got help; yet, I could still hear some hesitation in their voice as they spoke to me, and rightfully so.  I had screwed my family over so many times; I expected them to have some reserve.  I told them where I would be staying and where I was working, and they told me they would make some time to come visit.  Everything seemed to be going as planned and falling into place.  The halfway house was nothing fancy by any means and was ran by a group of people whom seemed decent.  We had to do most of everything ourselves, which was not a problem and the fact that I had a job helped out significantly.  They would do random drug tests, and if we were caught using they would just kick us out.

I managed to complete the transition program quite well and was back to a regular routine.  The room I was renting from my co-worker was still available and I got back to working regular hours again.  I still had the recurring thought in my head, I was not completely happy with what I saw everyday in the mirror.  I have battled a lot up to this point, my 30^th birthday was coming soon, and I wanted to be sure I was comfortable with everything.  I had nothing really to show for my life, no real education and no real work experience or significant life experience besides years of drug abuse.  This could actually be it; I needed more, I needed more challenges in my life and I needed to expand who I was.  What I was thinking at the time made absolutely no sense to me, but I knew what I had to do.