April 8
It would be dishonest to say that I never enjoyed doing heroin. I didn't start doing it because it made me feel bad. But the pleasure I got from the needle was incredibly short-lived, and when it was...
March 6
I tried a couple of times to detox at a ultra-rapid detox place and on my own from cocaine. Each time I relapsed so fast that I was using again almost the same time that I finished. For me the...
February 18
I tried every which way to avoid quitting drinking the hard way. I saw all these places on the internet selling you their rapid detox, ultra rapid detox, super-duper ultra-rapid detox treatments. I...
January 31
You can't be scared of detox . . . like I was! If you don't stand up and declare your independence from alcohol and show your addiction that you're stronger, recovery will only be a fleeting escape...
January 2
When it came to alcohol detox, I'd always believed the cure to be worse than the disease. I fought alcoholism for 11 years, during which I attempted to quit twice and relapsed once. The reason for my...
December 11
I never thought that a simple anxiety disorder could lead to a debilitating substance abuse problem. I'd been taking Valium since my senior year of high school, and was managing my anxiety to a...
November 2
When I was 20, my parents gave me a choice: either quit drinking or pack your bags. I'd been abusing alcohol since I was 15 and transitioned to full-blown addiction right around the time I got my...
October 25
I thought I could tolerate just about every kind of physical pain there was. I'd been through two motorcycle accidents, major back surgery and an armed assault, but trying to detox from alcohol on my...
August 21
I had been to two different detox facilities before finally successfully defeating my addiction to painkillers. You could throw all the money you want at a problem, but at the end of the day, you...
June 6
If there was one thing I eventually learned during my substance abuse recovery battle, it's that detox and rehab are a package deal. If you want to have a long lasting recovery, you can't have one...
May 16
People will always bemoan the physical and emotional toll that addiction can take. They say it's critical to get treatment at all costs and it's the most important thing you'll ever do with your life...
April 30
I entered an ultra-rapid, anesthesia-based detox program thinking that I'd be able to fall asleep and wake up cured of my heroin addiction, symptom-free. What I experienced was a painful and futile...
April 9
I had been a casual cocaine user for about five years before I decided to get my life together. I had recently turned thirty, and was expecting our first child, so I knew I couldn't maintain this...
March 18
Individuals who are looking for a quick fix in the pursuit of their sobriety and mental health would do well to examine the danger of ultra rapid detox. A process that involves an exponentially...
February 16
I was seventeen years old when I first started abusing pills, but didn't enter detox for painkillers until I was twenty. My addiction to Vicodin delayed college, ruined my credit, caused my family...
January 31
When you're going through your parents medicine cabinet, looking for some relief from unbearable shoulder pain, you're not really thinking about how that relief could lead to having to go to a...
November 22
Opiate detox was one of the most painful and rewarding things I've ever gone through. It's rare that you look back on a situation and tell yourself that you never would have volunteered to do...
October 31
Like many others out there right now. I lost my job in manufacturing five years ago, and was not been able to find work for a while. I'm 53 years old and have never been married, but have two...
October 13
I knew my drug problem was getting out of control. Since I was a teenager in high school I've dabbled recreationally with prescription drugs like Percocet and Valium, but in the last 2 years my...
August 28
For the longest time I have blamed my parents and others for my alcoholism and my inability to face the problem. I blamed my dad for his own abusive and violent drinking binges, my mom for tolerating...
August 19
It was very hard to come to terms with the fact that my daughter was going to need alcohol and drug detox. She was just a teenager. This is not something that parents ever prepare themselves for;...
August 9
My addictive personality is not a phrase I throw around lightly to describe myself, and contrary to what some may think, this behavior did not just manifest out of my drug and alcohol addiction....
August 2
While I was in crystal meth detox I thought a lot about this incredibly destructive substance that forced me into detox and led to my brother's death. In my experience, I believe that most...
July 25
I had heard from several friends of mine who had tried to detox on their own or with rapid detox that it could be a real nightmare. But I never gave it much thought until I was filling out the...
July 21
My heavy drinking didn’t start until I went away to college. I was never much of a partier when I was in high school and living at home, but when I got on my own at college it was like one non-stop...
July 19
For the last 3 years, my boyfriend and I have been battling opiate and heroin addiction. Looking back on it now I guess drugs were the glue that held our traumatic relationship together. ...
July 14
I’d done it before – prescription pill detox. I thought I was past it; I thought I was recovered. Nineteen years, nineteen chips later, I picked up the bottle again. I never saw it coming...
July 14
I am embarrassed to admit that before my mom went to alcohol and drug detox, she was the number one supplier in our hometown. She was proud of it too. Naturally at first I was very...
July 13
I went through a drug detox during month six. It wasn’t until month six that I could begin to understand that I was going to be a father. I knew that without drug detox, I couldn’t be the...
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