I Am a Recovering Addict

The present moment is all we have. Yes, we have plans and goals, a vision for tomorrow. But now is the only time we possess. And it is enough.

We can clear our mind of the residue of yesterday. We can clear our mind of fears of...

junkie boy, junkie girl
junkie boy is sick
junkie girl turns a trick
and junkie boy gets his fix
junkie boy gets well
junkie girl lays down
junkie boy is do'in scores
all over town
Junkie girl wakes up
and there's her ol' man
with a...

surely someone should seen it coming. i am not only addicted to drugs, but yesterday my addictive personality got me all caught up in this site. i was so excited and so relieved and probably even a little bit desperate that i just knew...

I have been an addict almost all my life.  I took my first drink at age 11.  From there things just progressed.  I used something everyday.  Alcohol, pills (lots of them), weed, coke, acid, heroin...hell it might be...

I remember being around 12 when I started being backward and ashamed of my body, hair and the fact that every (girl besides me) had gotten their period and was well on their way to becoming a "real" teenager. My elementary was...

Sep. 7th is my day... the day things aligned and i decided being a slave to opiates was no longer going to be part of my life. Some say it's a disease others dispute whether it is or not, i personally don't know. I do know that in my...

I HAD BEEN A DRUG ADDICT FOR 20 SOME YEARS...... AND IN THE END OF MY ADDICTION I HAD GOTTEN SO BAD IN THE END I DID THE 2 THINGS I ALWAYS SAID I WOULD NEVER   DO!  SHOOT UP AND HERION...... THE SICK THING IS I WAS...

OK. I have quit many times. First, one day, then one week, then one week, then two weeks, then one month, then another month. You know I have ambivalent feelings about quitting forever. I still think about using every day. I did feel it...

Everybody has an addiction, and most people have multiple. Human beings are all substance abusers and addicts to a fault. Pick your poison.. coke? ecstacy? sex? food? we're all hooked. and through the whole getting sober process I've...

I've told exactly on person about this, but felt the need to put it out there tonight.

I quit approximately 1 year ago. I was addicted to opiates (pain pills) and had been for awhile. It cost me my job, a wife, and everything in...

iiam a brand
new recovering addict my kids were taken..i couldnt face it was in denial kept using for four more.months...before thy wrte taken i didnt hve a addiction my addiction started after thy wrre taken..im tryng to stay clean kp...

The darkest part of recovery, is feeling desperately alone. You don't know it in the beginning, but it's the loneliest time of your life. I refer to it as the tunnel. It's lonlier than the drugs, it's darker than the lies, and the...

I am a 27 year old female with 4 children. I have been clean almost eleven months now.
I started using when I was nine. The first time I went to treatment I was twelve. My mother was always wanting to send me to treatment and she did 7...

    I had a dream last week that took me to a place I hope to never see again.  Like all recovering addicts, we relive our past through our dreams.  If that is all I have left to remind me about my days of crack addiction, then I...

ok here goes. my story is very intense. i really dont even know where to start. i am a ten year veteran of this crack war and im finally ready to lay my pipe down. believe me the devil aint makin it easy. so i know im on the right...

When I think of those early days in recovery I am amazed that I managed to make it through. I was so full of guilt and shame. I wanted to end my life at times. The meeting I went to read " The Promises" and I just kept clinging to them...

I have smoked cocaine/crack for over 20 years.  Many times I tried to stop and I even went to rehabilitation centers.  It didn't help.  I would be smoking, praying, singing gospel and reading the Bible all at the...

I just celebrated two years sober and since beginning my third year, it's been a painful, yet gratifying road. While using, it was a downward spiral of sickness, lying, stealing, violence, even jail. I'm a 24 year old woman, who...

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