Archive for May, 2007

drug abuse

Author: Suki
05 31st, 2007

 Here’s what you need to know about drug abuse: Don’t mess around with it. Don’t assume that it isn’t a problem, or that you can make it go away whenever your want to. Don’t pretend that your drug abuse habit is anything other than a drug abuse habit…because pretending won’t change the fact of the thing itself, and pretending too long is liable to get you killed.

Drug abuse is a bear of a disease. It will break you down, hollow you out, leave you unable to relate to anything except yourself and your need to use. It will ruin life, if you let it…and the plain truth is that you can’t ever hope to get better without getting help from drug abuse treatment professionals.

Have a drug abuse problem? You need to enroll in a drug abuse treatment center. Period. That’s the only way to get better, the only way to get sober. You can’t do it on your own. Please, for your own sake, don’t be foolish enough to try. With so much to lose, you can’t afford not to win.

 



05 14th, 2007

So you need addiction treatment. Fine. You aren’t the only one. Every year, millions of Americans seek addiction treatment, and addiction counseling. Many of them get better. If you’re going to be among the healed, you’ve got to play an active role in your own addiction recovery.


Addiction recovery isn’t a lazy man’s pastime. It isn’t enough to check yourself into an addiction treatment and then wait to get healed; on the contrary, addiction treatment and addiction counseling won’t work for you unless you’re willing to work for addiction treatment and addiction counseling. To get better, you’ve got to commit yourself to the healing process, and to your individual addiction treatment program. Anything less just won’t cut it.

 

Look, so there’s no confusion: Addiction treatment isn’t easy. Addiction counseling will test your spirit, and your resolve; addiction recovery can’t ever be real unless you’re ready to struggle and strain along the way. But it’s worth it, in the end, worth it in a way that you have to experience to understand. Please, for your own sake, make today the day you throw yourself into the addiction recovery fight. There’s too much on the line for you to hold anything back.