By Mel, from USA Dear addiction, This morning as I prayed to God, a thought flashed through my mind. It told me to write this evil a letter, and right behind it was the discernment that God had just spoken to me. So I immediately picked up pen and paper and began to pour my […]
By Dean, from Indiana I don’t know how someone starts out a story like this, but here goes. I remember the first time I took Xanax. It was in High School. My 3rd year in and I was in my Environmental Science class. I knew most of the people in the class did drugs, but […]
By Lin, from Arizona When I was in 8th grade my life began a downward spin I started drink smoking and using pot by the time I was 15 I had discovered meth. I didn’t think I was the typical addicted at the time. I still went to school I had a part time after […]
By Lisa, from Canada I was in an emotionally and psychologically abuse marriage for 18 years that ended badly. I did everything I possibly could for those 18 years to try to make my husband happy. The more he abused me the harder I tried. It ended with me finding out that he was having […]
By Earl, from Jackonsville, FL My name is Earl! I am an alcoholic. I did not drink in my first 18 years of life. Neither one oft parents drank either. I was the all American kid played sports all of my life and made good grades. Never had a desire to drink at all. And […]
By CA, from the UK I feel I should start off by saying that before I met my now ex boyfriend, I was extremely ignorant to addiction and any form of mental illness, partly due to the way I was brought up and also partly due to the fact neither had entered my life yet! […]
By Zoe, from Rhode Island Growing up, I had a pretty normal childhood. I lived in a very small upper-middle class town in Rhode Island, where daily worries consisted of one of our horses getting loose or getting stuck behind a tractor on the way to work. I never went without anything growing up, and […]
I have a friend that has just recently stopped smoking pot. She has been addicted to marijuana and alcohol since she was a teenager and she will be 41 in a few days. She’s a wonderful person and I have moved a very long way to be here with her. When I came here, I […]
By Jennifer He needed alcoholic rehab. That much was obvious. The question was how to go about getting him there? While my brother had a relatively decent HMO CALPERS insurance plan, it was a Friday night heading into a weekend where no one would be available to help. The worst part? This wasn’t the first […]
Hi everyone, my name is Bryce. I hope that my story will help the kids out there think about painful reality of drug addiction. Just remember this,it is not worth your life. At age 7 my father died and later on in my life I would use this as a catalyst for my addiction. In […]
