Topic : 06/30 Addicts Transformed

what can i do to help my daughter, 25 she is on meth, i saw evil in this child last month when we finally adressed this. now she say's she is trying to get off and doing really good with it   she tells her  dad and i and tells her sister something else. she put her sister and 2 year old daughter in danger by bring this people to the house my youngest  daughter told her she had to move out . she has  a son he will be 6 next month , he is spending the summer  with his dad. we think we need to call and say don't bring him home until she gets help. we give her no money and only buy for grandson when needed/ we buy his things for school. how can we help her?   

Be prepared to be sick.................you'll feel like crap for about a week or so, the first three days will be a living hell.    I couldn't do it cold turkey, I went to a methadone clinic.    Good Luck. 

And I wish people would STOP saying drug addiction is a disease.   It's NOT a disease, it's a choice.    You can choose to stop, and then choose to stay off the drugs.    Saying it's a disease is just an excuse to keep doing drugs. 

I watched that show with my hands soon over my face with me watching through my fingers.  I started crying and was soon almost sobbing.  I was shocked at Joani's boldness.  That demon almost crawled right out of her onto the screen!  What a grip!!  

THIRTY YEAR ADDICTION?!  Unreal.  And the rest of the program was just as gripping.  "There but for the grace of God go I"....but now I see family members going through this and denial of some other members.  What a wake up call time, even for me.  I call one member "The Puppet Master" because even though there is fresh evidence of use all he has to do is deny it and everyone believes him!  Drug test companies have spent MILLIONS to make sure those test kits are fail-proof, haven't they?  Who am I to believe?? (Not 1 but 2 brand spanking new pieces of evidence of using again.)  

I am going to stand strong and let the words ring in my ears...."If you are an addict, you are also by default also-A LIAR."  

Any thoughts? 

PS....thank you to the facility in Florida!  I thought my heart would pop when news of the "waiving the fees" was announced.  Makes the heart just swell!  Good people out there.  :O)  

Hi,I am a 25 year old woman whose life has been turned upside down by one choice that I made when I was 18. Well to start off I was molested by my step-father from (what I remember) the age of 8 to 14 (but what my sister remembers 5 to 14. She too was molested but was sent to a foster home when she told but anyhow, I never recieved any type of counseling for this and when I turned 18 and was out on my own I chose to start using drugs (pains pills). I started out taking them but advanced into snorting them.I would use them of and on for 2 years then at the age of 20 I started using them everyday several times a day and became very addicted to them, I got very sick and laid in the bed for 1 1/2 yrs. only getting up to snort a pill and was doing this 1 time an hour. I literally sleep for 1 1/2 yrs., I lost down to like less than 100lbs and I am 5'10, so you can imagine what I looked like, I was very sick, everytime that I got up to do a pill I would throw up, I only ate maybe 1 time a week and was lucky if I could hold it down. Now that I am almost 3 yrs. clean I have to have reconstructive surgery on my nose because it has collasped from the drug usage. I am unable to work because I now have breating problems from where my nose is collasped, I suffer from major depression and PTSS. I am now fighting to get my disability. I have been trying for over 2 yrs. now to get this surgery on my nose but can't find a doctor who can do this surgery because it is such an intense and long surgery, I have spoken to some doctors and it could be up to 1 year of surgeries and my nose may not even be fixed after all these surgeries. And one doctor said that he can do the surgery but he wants to cut on my face to get tissue and my face will be scared from that and the scars will be visible he also wants to take a main artery out of my wrist, could lose hand functioning over that and also wants to take skin from my arm and my arm will look like it has be burnt. And the worst part about this is that where I am unable to work I have no money and no insurance so I can't afford this surgery. I have tried everything I can think of to get help so I can get this surgery and get nothing. I guess it is like the old saying you get what you deserve,and I truly believe that But I also believe that you learn from your mistakes and can help other people not make the same mistakes that you have made. And yes I believe that everything happens for a reason and I have gotten what I deserve but I also believe that I have paid for my mistake long enough, And it's time for me to get my life back and start living again. If you have a loved one who is using drugs PLEASE make them read this so that they can see somewhat of what I have went through and it can maybe help them to get help and get clean. I Know it is hard and I know what you would be going through but in the end you WILL feel better and it WILL be worth it...   

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