Heroin junkie

Keep trying to kick it, you will make it in the end.

Yeah, normal to have those thoughts. That's a lot of rehab. Frankly, I wonder if you sent yourself to rehab or if you were sent by someone else? Rehab flat out won't work if you don't want it to.

It's kind of like - if you want to lose weight and you go to the gym and watch other people lift weights - is that going to make you more fit? Going to rehab and watching everyone else do the work, but not getting in and really doing it for yourself - you're not going to get better. And you have to WANT it to get it.

I'm speaking as a lady who quit chasing the white rabbit 15 years ago.

If you REALLY want to quit, you can. You just have to believe in yourself. And if you trip and fall, you get back up and keep on trying. Don't just give up and say, "Well, I've done the rehab thing..." It's totally up to you and not up to anyone else.

By the way - I wouldn't off myself. I have figured out over the past 15 years - since I quit the H - that I am actually a pretty good person, and I think some people would really miss me. Some of them are people I made friends with in NA - some are people I already knew and had hurt, so I thought they would hate me - they don't - and some are new friends I've met since.

You took the time to post. Take the time to hit an NA meeting and talk to someone. Go to your local mental health office & ask about an A&D program. Just reach out. The help is out there - but you have to be willing to help yourself first.

Oh yeah - and be prepared. 10 years of H will make you sicker than all getout when you go off - but then your body starts to heal - and you will not believe how AMAZING you feel. It's almost a high in itself.

That's a heartwarming story. I have been trying to quit smoking for years and although it really isn't in the same league as H, the same principles apply i.e. you really have to want to quit. No amount of cajoling, government initiatives and peer pressure is gonna do it.

Good luck.

don't you think I've done all of that?! And I have had 2 years clean and my body was healing and I still felt like hell. Thanks for trying anyways...

You should keep trying to quit. Ask Jesus to help next time you are in a Stupor, he usually replies within 4-6 minutes.

Hey he takes 10-20mins to get round to me. Are you getting preferential treatment?

It appears I am more Magdamonious than you. (is that even a word?)Baby Jesus does not fuck around. He will help this Wretch out, trust me.

Some of my close friends are in a similar situation, I, personally, quit in '98 after being an addict for 7 years.

Moving away from my hometown, and therefore my supply, I found quitting easy, I was very lucky indeed to have an opportunity to escape. 7 years later, I have no urge to go back to my old ways (judging by other people's addiction, I'm very lucky x2.)

I've been back for 4 years now, and since then two of my (addicted,) close friends have died, one from suicide, and another from an OD. They were good people, I miss them. Their families miss them more. Knowing the pain their passing has caused, if I still had a problem, I don't think I would "off," myself.

The problem with heroin addiction is that it makes the afflicted seem selfish, which isn't true. You have to seek help from people who understand this, be it in support groups, or rehab. Please don't give up giving up.

Take it easy.

Hey
I shot H and speed for years tried many rehabs, relapsed like 50 times, now I have almost 3 years clean. I did it by going to meetings EVERY FUCKING DAY and doing what I was told, got to 5 a day till you can deal with 1 a day. dont listen to your feelings THEY WILL LIE TO YOU. just go meetings, AA NA it doesnt matter, just go good luck brother

Hey whats up everyone, I am in need of some advice. Well here it goes, my girlfriend of two years well actually ex-girlfriend because she chose to shoot heroin. Well here is how it all started, a couple of times I was talking to her on the phone I noticed that she was falling asleep while she was on the phone, at first I let it go and just thought she was tired. And then it happen again and I said to myself this isn't normal. So she told me she was doing oc's, and at first I was like alright this isn't that bad she can get help. And as time went on I found out more by her telling me and then she told me she was doing heroin and I was like you have to be shitting me. And it was no joke she showed me her track marks and told me everything. Well once her mom found out she told her to go to rehab and get help. Well she's eighteen and it was her choice to go and so she did, she was in there for a total of eight days and while she was in there I did everything to help and support her by writing letters giving her a teddy bear, balloons, calling card just about anything she needed.But she should of stayed in there longer but it was her choice. And the rehab she was in was an alright rehab but nothing like Greenbriar. When she got out of rehab she was alright, I mean it was tough for her and she was prescribed to an opiate blocker but the first time she took it, it had bad affects on her. So she decided to stop taking it but once again I think she should of took it anyways or have been prescribed to an alternate medication. The friends she hanged around were not the best of friends her one friend got her started on all this and her other friends are not probably not good either probably do heroin or other things. But this whole heroin she ruined everything, everything you could imagine. It caused up to break up caused us to not talk and her to push her family away her true friends and everything else. She has her phone turned off since her mom is upset and decided not to pay the cell phone bill. But she is a senior in high school and her drug using is causing her to not go to school sometimes. She is always out with her friends and the reason for that is probably they are using and she is doing it with them. But I just wish there was a way for me or one of her family members to sit down and talk to her and get her the help she needs. Because if she doesn't get help it isn't going to be pretty. If there is any advice you guys can give me it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike03

kill yourself :]

sell your damn computer for smack money, then we won't have to hear your sob stories anymore!