By Valeri Roberts, from Winter Haven, Florida US Where do I begin? I had a normal life, married for 18 years with two beautiful boys. Had my job of 12 years. Had a family that I was very close with and had my horse and dogs which I loved so much! Then it happened…My husband […]
By Valerie, from Vorhees, NJ I’ve been going through a lot it’s been 2 weeks I’ve been using heroin again and before that I was clean for almost a year I have almost 10 months but the almost isn’t what matters. it’s a fact that my moment of weakness brought me to a place that […]
By Paul, from Scotland UK As an addict in active addiction, I spent my whole life enveloped in fear. Fear of people, fear of intimacy, fear of rejection, fear of everything really. Except taking drugs. I was pretty fearless when it came to that! In recovery, I’ve learnt to manage fear to a large extent. […]
By Melissa Hello! I have been wanting to share my story with other people so I finally found a place in which I thought it would be greatly appreciated perhaps. Anyway, I started drinking alcohol when I was 15 years old. I am from Mexico so back home its legal to do so at the […]
By Mario, from Ensenada, Mexico Hello, im a 34 year old male. I’m a meth addict…and I’m scared!!!! I started using meth when I was 20…before my 13 year old DAUGHTER was born…before meth I was really happy. I used to think i had everything under control… I had a beautiful wife and DAUGHTER…we had […]
By Angel, from Rossville, GA I am an addict. I started taking pills and drinking at 13. I had my first kid at 16 and stopped drinking but kept doing pills. My doctor gave me Valium, Perocet and stadol at the age of 18. I was using a bottle of stadol every 2 days, taking […]
by Dan Farish, from Freeland, Washington Call addiction what you wish – a condition, disease or a disorder. I have no problem with those labels. What I do have a problem with is every Tom, Dick and Harry in the addiction treatment industry insisting that addiction an “incurable” disease. Terminal cancer is an incurable disease. […]
By Scott, from Utah, USA My addiction started when I was in high school. It was a warm spring day at school, me and my girlfriend and some friends left school for lunch that day. I didnt know that day would change the rest of my life. It started out as a normal day; we […]
By Tami Ash, from Cleveland, Oh Hi, my name is Tami. I’m 42 years old, married, the mother of 6 children, and a grandma to 8. I started getting high when i was 12 years old. My mom died and I blamed everyone. I first used pot, then quickly started doing anything I could get […]
I have to say, looking back at my childhood, it was not so bad. From a family persepective that is. To sum it up in a nutshell, when I was 2 (and I remember this like yesterday) and until I was 4 years old, I was sexually abused by someone very close to my family… […]
