I started smoking marijuana and drinking many years ago when I was a teenager.  I thought that I needed to do this to be cool and fit in with the other kids at school.  I never was a straight "A" student but I did OK.  I was never involved in any of the school activities that were offered that so many of the other kids were involved with.  I tended to go the wrong direction and hang out with the crowd that would rather party than involve themselves in academic things. 

After I graduated from high school, I am proud of that accomplishment since there are so many kids these days that don't even achieve a high school diploma any more.  Anyway, I went to work and once again I seemed to gravitate towards the partiers.  My drug and alcohol use progressed for another 15 years to snorting and shooting crank, smoking crack, snorting cocaine, eating pharmaceutical  drugs, drinking lots of alcohol and basically doing whatever came my way that would alter my state of conscientious.  During this time I always managed to keep a roof over my head and pay my bills even though I was living on the ragged edge of disaster.

Then one day when I was about 35 years old I met a person who introduced me to the wonderful world of shooting heroin.  Boy did my life take a turn for the worse.  I became stung out on heroin and things really changed.  Oh I still was doing crank, crack, pot, pills, and alcohol but the heroin became my one and only love.  It became all consuming for me, all my time was devoted to finding, purchasing and doing the drug.  I soon lost my job and found my self homeless.  I went to jail numerous times for stupid things and I have never been to jail before up until that time.  It seemed like I was stuck in a revolving door going in and out of the legal system.  My life became utterly hopeless and when I finally overdosed on some cocaine and heroin one day and wound up the hospital that still was not enough to make me stop.  I couldn't stop I did not know how, I felt like I was stuck on a merry-go-round and if I jumped off I was going to smash into the ground.  Addiction had a hold me in a way I would have never imagined in a million years.

Then one day I heard about this drug rehab and decided to give it a try.  That was a life changing experience for me.  I learned so much there, I learned that I did not have to be addicted to drugs and alcohol the rest of my life.  I could be free of addiction I did not have to be an alcoholic.  I could be responsible for myself and take control of my life.  I gained that tools that I needed to make life changing decisions for the better and learned how to actually put those decisions into action. 

Today I have been drug free for 6 years and my life is great.  I owe a world of thanks to the drug rehab that I attended and the treatment that I received.  The people treated me with love and respect and gave me the most precious gift of all my life back.  They also gave my parents their daughter back and my siblings got their sister back.  I am also a contributing member of society again and I am totally out of the legal system.  If a drug rehab can work for me it can work for you.  Don't be afraid to seek treatment at drug rehab if you have a drug or alcohol addiction.  You deserve to have a great life and can have it with the proper tool to achieve it.