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It's been a while, everything has been goin pretty smooth, just for some reason right now i got that really bad craving that you don't know what to do with it.. just got back from San Diego to visit a friend in recovery down there.. the meetings there were awesome.. hope you guys have been good
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What I Learned in Kindergarten (oops! I mean day treatment)
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This is the beginning of a string I like to call, "What I Learned in Kindergarten" Hello Fellow Addicts, I have been in treatment now for exactly a week! I have attended more NA meetings than I can count and have found countless friends! I'm exhausted. Out of everything I have learned, the...
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Working a Program
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For the first time i'm actually giving it my all, i asked someone to be my first sponser (only took 3 and a half years since my first meeting..hah) and i'm doing the work he gives me and i feel a lot of satisfaction in actually commiting and following through with my recovery
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First Post here -- Making a Difference -- Rock Bottom
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Well, 5-6 months ago I was a 16 year old kid going to parties hanging out with friends drinking the 5-8 bottles a beer and maybe a packing a bowl. Then I discovered what Hydromorphone/Oxycodone and Codeine can make you feel like. I still liked to smoke weed a bit too though. I was getting worse. One time in...
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side effects of Cocaine abuse
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Hi, I am grateful for this forum, as I have been reading different posts regarding drug abuse... I am baffled, but trying to really understand my husband's drug and alcohol abuse. The other day, he was wheezing (recently learned last month that he has asthma), and I sent him to the emergency room. He h...
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I let my coke abusing, alcoholic husband back in!
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After kicking my A husband out for the first time, and having him endure being "homeless" for a week, I let him come back home...one reason - his family. Over the weekend, all of his sisters, mother and brother-n-laws did an "intervention" with him. They told him that if he didn...
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Honesty
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Just for today talks about self deception and rationalization. Wow. It seems that i am better at fooling myself that I am at fooling anyone else. I have been working on a reduction plan (or at least I thought that I was) for about 3 weeks now. I am trying to taper off the drug that has been in my system for mor...
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A counter culture icon passes. george carlin, rest in peace brother
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Life is not as difficult as people think; all one needs is a good set of rules. Since it is probably too late for you, here are some guidelines to pass along to your children. 1. Relax and take it easy. Don't get caught up in hollow conceits such as "doing something with your life." Such twaddle...
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Hi.. I'm staci o and I am a Newbie here.. not to the program..
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I thank my HP aka "God" for you all being here! I am in a bit of a slippery place and Need to glean a little experience strength and Hope.. and maybe pass some on. Thanks!
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at 17 days clean........
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at 17 days clean , all my clothes are washed and folded and put away . at 17 days clean i get up up early enough for a shower EVERY day before work. at 17 days clean i actually get my work done...at 17 days clean im not able to sleep on my stomach anymore ( its a guy thing ) at 17 days clean i LOOK FOR SOMETHING TO DO W...
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i am an addict
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My name is Kathleen and I am an addict. This is the first time, ever, that I have said that.
I am addicted to perscription pain killers and have been for over 19 years. I'm 34. Luckily or unluckily, depending on how you look at it, I have been a very high functioning addict. I have never lost a job, or been to...
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Being lonely when first in recovery
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my clean time
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attitude of gratitude
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thought I would start a new gratitude game since there was so much response on the other thread it was great to hear from those who participated so lets work together and play the gratitude game once again.. I am grateful to have a loving HP in my life today with no resentments I am grateful I can come here a...
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write my brother and wish him well he needs it
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hes just now out of surgery he had three today. he wouldn't be online for awhile of talk to anyone on the phone for awhile. email him at martialartsteacherjc@live.com or martialartsteacherjc@yahoo.com he has those emails on hes phone at all times and thats also has yahoo.com messeger or msn messeng...
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a better way .
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Hi family , I hate im missing the chat room at night. but working 3rd shift is putting in its two cents on my recovery. im feeling like dumping a bit of my old work habits on you. A " normal " day for me used to be. Wake up around 8;15 pm . get high about 8;20. may get a shower maybe not. sit on bed and smo...
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I've been missing in action...
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Hey Family! Sorry I wasn't able to chair this past Sunday, or even let anyone know that I wouldn't be able to, as all my contact info is in my computer and I've been having technical difficulties ,to be politically correct. Thankfully, my computer survived as my sponsor convinced me that throwing it...
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Awakening...
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I came across this on another message board today. It really touched me and puts into words truly the person that I long to be: The Awakening Sonny Carroll There comes a time in your life when you finally get it ... When in the midst of all your fears and insanity you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere th...
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a drug is a drug is a drug is a drug...
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just as.. a rose is a rose is a rose.. Many changes in my life presently i am going for laser treatment today to stop smoking!!! i feel excited and scared, but working diligently on staying in the moment, so far so good. i don't want to be controlled by cigs anymore, it is a mind and mood altering substance....
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I asked myself today , is taking others for granite
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part of my illness? is it the selfish side of me? thinking only of me me me? I relapsed on anger ( not drugs or booze ) again the other day total melt down long story behind it but it was about fear and feeling less then important. Share with me family i'm sick of this....... -- Edited by BigV at 22:40, 2008-06...
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okay damn it
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I am getting sick of the old life once again and have too much pride to walk back in the rooms but smoking weed is not helping anything atm might even be making things worse so now I just have to workup the nerve to walk back in thoserooms and to be motivated that is going to be the hardest part I think but I gott...
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7 Days Clean
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Hi Everyone, I am now eight days clean from hydrocodine. I decided last week that it was time for me to give up this addicition of three years. The withdrawals were really bad. My mother took me to the hospital due to my pain. I went through the withdrawals at home with my husband, mom and 19 yr old daugh...
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Is There Anyway to Minimize Those Awful Side Effects??
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Hi Everyone, I been trying to get off Meth for some time now but I keep relapsing due to the awful side effects. Is their anyway to minimize the side effects so I can finally kick my addiction? It's like ..."I'm damn if I do it,......and damn if I don't." In other words, doing this drug is obvio...
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Seeking "NA" meetings for Rx Drug Abuse
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Hi, I am new here, but I've been researching the internet on and off for years before this post today. I am about to celebrate 4 years of sobriety from an unintentional although vicious addiction to prescription meds. I live in a smaller city and have not been able to find any NA meetings that can even rem...
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Opportunities...
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Through laziness or inattention, we often miss opportunities to grow. Maybe we don't play our hunches or listen to our intuition. Maybe we see an opportunity but fail to act because we're not sure it's what we ought to do. An opportunity to fulfill a lifelong dream has appeared, but we don't trust our g...
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Sorting out a relationship.
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When we as addicts are in relationships before we get clean a lot of questions come to mind when we get clean. Certain questions that play heavy in my mind are: 1. Why did I get involved with her? 2. Why do I always go back? 3. Do I love her? Can anyone else relate to these questions? We as addicts seem to ...
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SAD PLACE
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HI folks Im Anthony and im an addict .im in a bad place today.im 6 days clean.and that isnt the bad part.thats good.but i spent today doing the things i should have been doing all these years . I visited my grandmother in the nursing home.shes 90 . shes a sweet woman with 90 years clean.lol i should be so muc...
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sponsor concerns
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hey guys so i just celebrated 18 months and i'm sort of happy about that. but then again i'm sort of in this situation. i just finished working my 4th step and i've been trying to get together with my sponsor to share it and its been a few weeks now and she works alot now and so i haven't been that pushy over it....
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I NEED A SPONSOR!!!!
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I really need help. I am early in my recovery and I need a sponsor. I am not new to the program, I just haven't been working it. I want, no I need to get sober. I am only sixteen, I don't want to die. I need help and I need it quick. I really would like to find a sponsor so if anyone out there would like to help me, I'm...
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Marraige and recovery
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hi guys , im anthony and im an addict , Im trying to post frequently on issues Im dealing with at the moment . Im new clean ( 9 days ) and am kind of winging it minute by minute. Im going back to 1984 . i had been married a couple years with a brand new son . my wife was in the military , i had just gotten out. with a son...
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