Archive for the Category ◊ Addiction ◊

Author: Suki
• Monday, February 18th, 2008

A drug intervention doesn

Author: Suki
• Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

There

Author: Suki
• Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Drug intervention is an attempt by family members and friends to help a chemically dependent person get help for his or her addiction, and get them into a residential drug treatment center. The purpose of a drug addiction intervention is to help the drug addict see the physical and mental destruction their addiction creates. Interventions are usually successful and often enable the abuser to move on to successful drug and alcohol treatment programs. As with all addictions, drug and alcohol abusers are usually the last to admit there is a problem. Or, the abuser may realize there is a problem but just cannot seem to seek help. Family, friends and careers also suffer and can be destroyed by the abuser

Author: Suki
• Friday, October 26th, 2007

During my 90 days at alcohol rehab I experienced more ups and downs than I could ever hope to include in a short write-up. There were the good days and there were the bad, but in the end they all added up to precisely what I came for: alcohol rehabilitation. Alcoholism had left me in a shattered state, without the hope or energy one needs in order to make any kind of life recovery. Three months ago I found myself in a state of total stagnation and despair; my alcohol addiction had led me to a point of desperate immobility where nothing existed outside my alcohol abuse. I was truly at the brink of death with nothing to call my own but a broken soul. I had no future. When I finally reached a point where I was prepared to make a serious change in order to save my life, I was presented with an opportunity to come to a rehab center, a safe place, where I could learn some tools for sobriety as well as for living a healthy life. I gained so much more. I have never before in my life had an opportunity to take three months for myself; a time to peel back the layers and walls of my inner and outer personality and to explore the many corridors and shadows that have helped to create the person I was and the person I am today.

Author: Suki
• Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Drug rehab centers all over the world are responsible for being the guiding light amidst the darkness for so many people. I don’t even think people understand the kind of commitment drug rehab centers maintain in order to do what they do. It is definitely an amazing thing. I’ve always believed in giving credit where it was due and that is why drug rehab centers get all the props in the world. My brother had to go to a drug treatment center back when he was a teenager. He had a little problem with the blow and he underwent some serious rehab for his serious addiction. I was a skeptic about drug treatment centers at first, but when Todd went to one, I quickly learned how cool drug rehab centers really were. The always show you the worst shit about drug rehabs on the news that it is virtually impossible to get a good idea what they really are like. First of all, they aren’t all filled with a bunch of derelicts and degenerates, though there are still a few of those present. Secondly, it’s nothing like a movie at all. When you or a loved one go to a drug rehab center, you will realize how steeped in reality the situation is. And if you’re trying to redefine the reality of your life, drug rehab centers can help you with that.

Author: Suki
• Thursday, September 20th, 2007

I thought I could get better without help from a drug addiction treatment center. I thought I was in control of my cocaine habit, and of my life. I thought I could quit whenever I wanted to. I thought drug rehab was for suckers

And Lord was I wrong. Thankfully, I realized it before it was too late.

The decision to enroll in a drug addiction treatment center was the best one I ever made. It

Author: Suki
• Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

Can you remember the biggest mistake that you ever made? I can. My biggest mistake was getting hooked on drugs. I used to hang with a group of guys that I thought were the coolest and they used to smoke and shoot up anything they could. It wasn’t long before I started doing what I could to be part of the crew and I started smoking and shooting like the rest of the group. I couldn’t believe that I was doing that, but I soon got to the point where I couldn’t stop. It was really bad. I became very hooked on cocaine. We were shooting it, snorting it, smoking it…as long as we had it it didn’t matter. Finally the problem got so bad that I tried to get away from that group of idiots, but you know how it is. When the cravings came around the bad crew had a way of doing the same thing. I knew that I needed help, so I checked out an addiction treatment center. The folks at the addiction treatment center took me in with open arms and showed me the way to a better life. It was amazing. I had been so messed up for so long that I really didn’t think that I would ever get sober again. The addiction treatment center changed all of that.

Author: Suki
• Friday, September 14th, 2007

At a drug rehab center lives get saved. Heck, there are probably lives being saved right now. Drug addictions can kill families, friendships, and careers. I’ve seen it happen. It happened to my buddy Brian. Brian got hooked on meth by smoking it at parties with some of his buddies. Back in the day, there wasn’t as much noise made about smoking it as there is today. Brian is a good man, but in the old days, he was a dumb kid. He kind of just tagged along with the wrong crowd and he did what thtey did. He was never accused of having bright ideas. Brian eventually got super hooked on meth and his life went downhill faster than a fat man on an icy slope. He wasn’t even the same Brian. It sucked to see him like that. A bunch of us, known as Brian’s ‘other friends’, got together and decided to have an intervention. We practically begged Brian to go to a drug rehab center and it actually worked. That’s how I know that drug rehabs work. Brian came out a new man and we owe it to the drug rehab center. It’s great to have my buddy back.

Author: Suki
• Thursday, September 06th, 2007
Author: Suki
• Tuesday, September 04th, 2007

I could tell you about drug rehabilitation…but I won