Anathe
as far as I can tell, it’s always the case that our drug addiction/alcoholism is but a symptom of a larger underlying problem.

Sure our doping and drinking has caused us enormous hardship, but like you said, “what makes me so stupid to have picked up snorting cocaine again” I have my ideas on why we do things like that. The short answer is we want to be buzzed more than we want to be clean and sober.

If just getting the stuff out of our systems was the answer, detoxes and treatment centers, having gotten us about as dry as we will ever be, would graduate 100% success stories.

But they don’t. Why is that?

But to answer your other question, by the eight of next month, it will have been seven years for me without a drink, not even a little one when no one was watching, doing it one day at a time.

Richard

Hi richard,

congratulations for your 7 years sober!!! I hope you feel great and that you no longer even get cravings or desires to drink!

So did successfully quitting require resolving an underlining issue for you? If so, how did you manage to find out what that issue was?

I was addicted to heroin for 10 years. Then I went to methadone.. I got off of that finally,,, but what I found out was that I have depression.... And I need to be on something.. So I found out about suboxone.. It is a well kept secret....... Of coarse methadone clinics never tell you about this medication because they want you to keep paying them.. Look it up online.. Only certain doctors can prescribe this, as they need to take a class... But may I tell you that it has saved my life.. I can now get out of bed every day and actually want to live.. Wowowo.. Is there anyone else who uses this med?

Ml

If it works keep it-is it a s.R.I-antidepressant?--it seems to me that it's a roll of the dice with any mind altering drugs-they all work different on everybody-most of those are too speedy for me; like effecsor-i switched to wellbutrin-not so shaky-as far as the mental health connection-(bad choice of words) goes-you guys are right-after going in and out of treatment for years; I ffinnaly figured it was time to get to the real underling problem and find out why I was inadvertantley trying hard to kill myself with cocaine injections every day and drinking whiskey like a fish-bad mix!--well now that all my family and friends have died from substance abuse; it don't take a rocket scientist to figure out that I was next-there is not easy way to quit-but thee are things that can be done to make it less attractive and prevent relapse--1-stay way away from old using friends-any of them-say goodbye-any time I ever relapsed it was because I continued hanging with my drunken-doping partners-cocaine is way too strong to allow that to happen-too stay clean in that scene

If it works keep it-is it a s.R.I-antidepressant?--it seems to me that it's a roll of the dice with any mind altering drugs-they all work different on everybody-most of those are too speedy for me; like effecsor-i switched to wellbutrin-not so shaky-as far as the mental health connection-(bad choice of words) goes-you guys are right-after going in and out of treatment for years; I ffinnaly figured it was time to get to the real underling problem and find out why I was inadvertantley trying hard to kill myself with cocaine injections every day and drinking whiskey like a fish-bad mix!--well now that all my family and friends have died from substance abuse; it don't take a rocket scientist to figure out that I was next-there is not easy way to quit-but thee are things that can be done to make it less attractive and prevent relapse--1-stay way away from old using friends-any of them-say goodbye-any time I ever relapsed it was because I continued hanging with my drunken-doping partners-cocaine is way too strong to allow that to happen-too stay clean in that scene