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Hi i am a new memeber ... and my name is Raven
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Hi my name is raven i am 18 and i am a Meth and coke addict.. so i was wondering if someone can tell me a little bit about this Na online thing and how it works
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i need help!
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this is my first time on a site like this. i'm going through withdrawals and i don't know what to do
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my decision
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I have come to terms with alot in my life lately and I can accept that I am disabled and I am going to have pain the rest of my life and that certain types of doctors have to be in that life because of the problems I have. The one thing I don't want or have to accept is second best and to finish this life alone! I hav...
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Miracles In Progress
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Hi Fellow Travellers, My name is John, I have been clean and sober since 12-21-1989. Thanks to both AA and NA, 3 great sponsors (through out the course of my almost 20 years of recovery) and a God, who was absolutely of my misunderstanding when I first arrived in the rooms, I have not found it nescessar...
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flower seeds?
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i just saw on the news that some middle school kids were eating morning glory seeds to get high. they say that it has an LSD type effect. its now considered a narcotic. and you have to be 18 to buy flower seeds. isnt that ridiculous? geeze.
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looking for sober friends
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Feeling very on edge is there anyone out there?
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an update
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hey guys, so the struggles kinda continues but at least i'm seeing the cause and the direction of it all. I realized that I had become comfortable in my recovery and I didn't want anything to change..... the problem is that everything always change, relationships grow and change and I was not willin...
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small follow up...
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I psted a lil bit ago about my friend,Sean, whos family took him off of life support...Well he died last Tuesday, Ive had alot of mixed feeling about it but I do feel that he has now found peace ( i do wish it could have been found someother way but its out of my hands). Tomorrow (Mon) is his funeral, and as m...
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i need sober friends
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hello im new at this i live in tampa fla in the 33634 zip and need to know how to get online meetings!!! & new pepole to talk too plezzzz help thanks renae
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Is there anybody out there?
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Is this a current forum? It seems I only see message from back in 2008???? I am the spouse of an addict and really need someone to talk to.
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If you can imagine, 47 years old and going to buy my first home soon
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I start looking with a Realtor today at homes we have 3 picked out to see. Big gifts with big worry's BIGGER responsibility's I'm still pretty stoked over the whole thing. NOt letting the shame of my age get in the way yeah its there most normal people have already owned bought sold 2 house probably by my...
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i changed my name.
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well since i was pretty much a completely different person before i thought i would change my name and be "myself". i couldn't think of anything cool or creative so i decided to just go plain and simple. treatments going good. i feel great. and i can't wait to go home in a month.
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its hard to live the life you choose.
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since i haven't been on in a week or so i was reading through all the threads and hearing of people trying to kill themselves with OD makes me really happy to know that i am still here. life is tough. and it sucks but you have to try and make the best of it, i guess. i mean treatment sucks. i hate it but i know if i d...
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I told a lie
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YUP and its not going to well LOL been so long since I did this and now I know why I NEVER lie ICK I hate this feeling . WHY? well for a few reason partly to motivate a few people into getting involved in our prospecting claim and another to show up someone but its all fake and I'm a fraud once again So I admitted i...
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New/please help with site
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Hi everyone, I am amazed what you guys have done to this site. It is wonderful. I don't know much about it yet but it makes me feel better that I can at least have someone to talk to and don't even have to pick up the phone or leave my house. Sometimes a person gets tired of going to the same meetings, seeing the...
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New to this, really needing support
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I'm a 23 year old heroin addict, and really need people to talk to that have been there, and help support me through this time. I gave heroin up at one point and it was the best time of my life. I regretable went back to it 8 months ago, because I hooked back up with my ex who is a drug addict. We live together and...
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ONE YEAR AND COUNTING
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Last month i celebrated one year of sobriety, and today i realized I did not fully and completely celebrate it. not w/o sharing on line with the ones who were there for me when i was unable to get up off of the sofa because my belly was so big w/ little alaska in it growing. she is now 7months and is just my do...
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"Service is a power greater than ourselves".
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Our Basic Text carries a clue when searching for a Higher Power. It says that service is a power greater than ourselves. Id like to share a bit about what this has meant to me and my hard won experience. I suppose that the theory that Higher Power can be experienced by doing service in NA is a result of the ol...
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Anyone in the Cambridge, Mass. area know of a group that can help with pain killer addiction?
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Hi guys. I'm from Cambridge, MA. Just got laid off, which really sucks 'cause I'm to my neck in addiction to Percocet. Really any kind of pain killer though it's easier for me to get the percs. Can someone tell me of a good group I can go to so I don't go out of my mind? It's been three days and I'm doing ok so fa...
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very sad feeling
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i am a medic for a volunteer service. We had a attemped suicide OD yesterday that just about broke me. This young man was 17. He is known to have many drug problems and trouble with the law. (I live in a town of 2000 so we know everyone) We got to the house and he had taken 260 different pills that had just b...
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help
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ok i have come to face tha facts the i have n control over my drinking, smoking and i dont know what to do i am so lost my boyfriend and i are both using weed i am 18 he is 17 i am also smoking weed at this pont we both relize how hard it is to stop we have the saport of his family and all but not of our friend who are als...
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sad for a selfish reason..
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I just got a call from my girlfriend, right now she is 150 miles away from me, she just informed me that our good friend sean will die within the next 24 hours. Sean is a recovering addict as well, I first met him a couple years ago while I was in a thick mist. I was homeless at the time and had a good $100-200 a da...
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Call your sponsor
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The life you save may be his/hers. I've got almost 22 years clean(6/16/87) and I'm having a tough time right now with just some life stuff. I've got 5 sponsorees right now,all of whom call regularly and all of whom are working steps. I'd be nuts right now if not for those guys.
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FORTY-EIGHT MUSTS IN NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS as found in the Basic Text
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1. "Everything that occurs in the course of N.A. service MUST be motivated by the desire to more successfully carry the message of recovery to the addict who. still suffers. - pg. XVI 2. "We MUST always remember that as individual members, groups, and service committees we are not and shou...
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feeling very confused....
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My mind ismessing with me pretty bad right now, Im unsure about alot of things, almost unsure of what is reality and what is just in my head....lucid dreams nightmares mix with my days and nights....im just very restless and feel close to somekind of a breakdown.....my wd symptoms are still pretty bad...
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Lil Sumthin !
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Just a tidbit I picked up from an Addict named jscott . I really dug it. Thought you guys might too. "Here is gone." --Goo Goo Dolls In my spiritual discipline I am taught to do what I am doing. When typing I should just type. When eating I should just eat. Just. Four letters that slice my "...
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sad about partner
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I am a recovering addict with 21 months clean. My partner still uses. He used to have a bad meth problem and got off of that. Now he smokes weed and pops pills. He is respectful when he does this but I keep having horrible dreams. I dream that someday Im going to find him dead at home. Some days its like...
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waiting for this too shall pass
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so I'm hurting from the loss of my friend, and he keeps coming to me in my dreams and leaving messages for me...........That's one thing in my mind, the other is the fact that my other friend who used with him his last day, is choosing to use a lot more and I'm watching her die.......... I am helpless in this...
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WHAT ?
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I have a birthday coming up. Im anxious , Im scared. I dont want to do it. IVe been asked who I want to speak for me..I said nobody. I dont want to go to meetings. I want to isolate. Im not talking relapse mode. I worked for a year off dope. I aint giving it up. But I wish that day would just come and go. I Wa...
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Help Please
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OK, I don't even know where to begin, but I know that I need help. I guess I should start from the beginning. When I was a child I grew up around drugs. My Mother and Father were both drug addicts, More my Father than my Mother. When I was about 3 my mother divorced my Father because of said usage. Crack...
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