Man oh man, I will be the first one to tell someone that methadone saved my life, that isnt an understatement either, that's the truth. Let's talk about it, I am sure I can help someone who is struggling with this, because it is possible. I was using a gram of heroin a day, so it is safe to say the money situation was dwindling down to nothing and I was running out of ideas and I gave up that "street" life a long time ago, you know robbing cars an scumbag shit. Someone recommended to me that I should go to the clinic, he told me, "I've been going to the clinic for the past few weeks, I've put ..read more

Whether you have just lost contact or are worried about someone who has an addiction problem with drugs, the worst things go through your mind when you haven't heard from someone in a while. It usually will go to thinking they are in jail or they died, its unfortunate, I will explain a few ways to see if someone has overdosed. Google their name, city last known to live in, age + obituary A great tool to use in order to find out if someone you know has overdosed or not is to check Google, by using this you will be able to check all the obituaries listed. For example if you're looking for "Jane ..read more

The thing with drug addiction is when you put it on the back burner for "another day" you are ultimately just making things a lot worse for you in the end. I know, I know, you are not addicted to drugs. I've been there it sucks to admit it especially to someone else that you're a drug addict. You vowed in elementary school to never touch drugs ever an that will never be me. You remember D.A.R.E, don't you? Oh what a surprise life had in store for us. Those D.A.R.E programs had the right idea in mind but it isn't going to affect people's decisions as an adult. A few common phrases heard from ad ..read more

You go through your everyday when you are addicted to dope, knowing you are addicted to dope. But what you don't realize is that you are also addicted to about 4 other things and they have just as much of a grip on your life as much as heroin does. It wasn't easy to get rid of things that provided me with so much comfort and support, I just didn't know it was temporary and that it was all just brewing up in my head til I finally snapped. I've been through a lot, as anyone who struggles with addiction has endured, I've done things I am not proud of and stuff that would bring great shame to my f ..read more

You did what you thought was impossible this whole time, you got tired of the reoccurring dread in your life fueled by your crippling drug addiction and now you got more than the usual week or two sober but one thing seems to be lingering, your anxiety and depression seem to be even worse than before you got sober. What's the deal? Will I ever become "normal"? Sobriety is the condition of not having any measurable levels or effects from alcohol or drugs. Good and bad news, the answers most probably yes, but also it's going to take some time... The thing is after years an years of continuous bl ..read more

You've got sober days now, you're doing good an you've started your new life and you haven't been happier. The thing is, those damn track marks have healed, but there is still a scar, how can one move on if you've are reminded about it every time you look at your arm. Though it could be beneficial for you to remind yourself where you were came from an how far you've come, but the thing is everyone else doesn't think that way. Even though most people who haven't suffered addiction problems or don't have any one close to them who have gone through it don't see a scar an assume you've been mainli ..read more

Drug addictions a b*t*h, no one needs to be told that. But sometimes people just need to know what they have at risk of losing by continuing their drug habits. There's no way you can manage a regular life an a drug addiction at the same time and if you think you are a functional drug addict, you are just confirming what I am trying to say here. If you think you're functional while you IV heroin into your arm, or railing blues every few hours, I hate to break to you but you are actually extremely dysfunctional. One: For thinking your functional, your brain must not work right because functional ..read more

I'm just reaching now an could be wrong but I'm guessing you didn't get into drugs by yourself (if that's why you're here), maybe you did but you for sure got together with a buddy for the sole reason to do your drug of choice together, maybe you grew fond of this person an ended up hanging a lot together, just getting high. Now here you are just doing nothing except getting high with this person every day, doing nothing with your self. Normally people just don't like to do drugs by themselves in the beginning, rather it's because they don't want to feel lonely, weird, or if they do drugs by t ..read more

One thing I remember when I tapered off methadone years ago successfully that the beginning first couple reductions of my dose was extremely hard to get through. I always would wonder "oh god, this is going to be a lot harder than people on the internet are saying..." But, rather than just giving up I continued to reduce my dose 5 mg a week at first. It just didn't make any sense, how am I feeling this crappy from just one little reduction? That's when it hit me, its got to be in my head and it was! Over the next few days, I would practice deep breathing exercises and I would even hit myself o ..read more

Everyone knows about substances like heroin, meth, and marijuana if they don’t know about them, then they have certainly at least heard of them before. There are drugs out there that are completely unknownst to the world, probably for the best. But I am gonna go over the top 4 most dangerous drugs that you might have not heard about. Disclaimer: Do not ingest anything listed on this article, if you do you will probably die the slowest and most painful death anyone in the world has ever felt. Whether you are in Cali and a person is smoking a blunt or you are somewhere in Cambodia and a dudes ta ..read more