Living with Narcotic Abuse

I was reading the story that Danielle wrote and I could feel her pain. I am a recovering drug addict, I started drinking when I was 13yrs old and within 1 year I started smoking weed and eventually that lead into harder drugs like meth. I have been a meth addict for the last 10 years and I can tell you it was all fun and games at first but eventually became a necessity. I had to have it all the time and did what ever it took to get it. Like robbing people, family and stores it didn’t matter who you were if I needed what you had to get drugs, I would take it!

During my drug use I hurt everyone around me especially myself and my family (the ones who really cared about me) but I didn’t care. I couldn’t care, drugs took away any feeling I had at all. I wound up eventually spending time in and out of jail and from there the judge gave me an oppurtunity to go to inpatient treatment, so I took it because I know I needed help I just wasn’t sure how to get it. Because I don’t think I would of been able to do it on my own. I have been sober for 13 months now and I love life again like when I was a child. I grew up with great parents who never drank or used and a happy child hood, I just got mixed up with the wrong kids.

Since I’ ve been sober I’ve gone back to college and will be graduating soon. I have a job that I make “honest” money at (not very much lol) but at least I’m doing things the right way. I see and talk to family all the time and theres know feeling like having a family who loves and supports you like mine. But most of all I am proud of who I am today and that I am sober!!