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Has anyone heard anything about him?
Well if it any consoulation hopefully he's read this and realizes he's definately not the only one with these problems and that alot of people are willing to go out of their way to help him.
Addiction is a tuff thing and I feel for him. I stopped popping pills and drinking 6 months ago. The things that help alot and things you HAVE to do in order to get clean is to
A) stop hanging out with the people you surround yourself with right now. This is a MUST and it's one of the hardest things to do. For me, I broke off all communication with them. Just hearing someones voice and knowing what they were up to would make me want to drink or do drugs.
B) find a hobby and bury yourself in it. For me it was guitar, for you it could be working on your car or anything just as long as your not just sitting around the house by yourself! Someone said working out. Thats a great idea, it will definately make you feel better about yourself!
Those two things are so important I cannot even explain it. I had been told all my life alcohol and drugs were depressants but I never really believed it. Its not like you just wake up one day after drinking and say "oops, i'm depressed now!" But over time the drugs wear you down and before you know it everything is bad and you dont know how you got to where you are and the worst part of it is you turn to the drugs and alcohol to make you feel better and in turn you get even more depressed. It's a viscious cycle and the hardest part is breaking it. You can do it if you want change bad enough and from your post it sounds like you want it pretty bad. The hardest part is just getting through the first couple weeks, you can do it. And look at all the people that are here for ya man! Just reach out and make the effort!

 

Well, shall we say or for those that do... pray... that he's getting some help right now? If he, indeed, has been doing crack, it'll eventually kill him. I've seen pictures of really beautiful women who got addicted to crack. Then each time they got busted, their pic was taken. It was a long slide downhill and not a pretty picture at all. The woman went from being so gosh-awful beautiful, to looking like something out of a horror film... goulish or zombie like.

When yer young, it's easy to say,"I can quit any time I want to." But with some chemicals, it simply isn't that easy.. especially once the withdrawals start. I can only imagine the withdrawals from something like crack. But I do KNOW withdrawal symptoms on a daily basis.

I take Oxycodone, which is highly addictive and sells on the street for lotsa money per pill. I don't get "high" on my meds. They do what they are supposed to do... help me manage my pain. But, I have to spread the pills out far enough to last 24 hours. At that, each time I take my meds, I am already starting to withdraw. Believe me..IT SUCKS THE BIG ONE! But.. short of a complete new spine...neck down... I have no other options. Now, it also has turned out I'm allergic to most of the meds I'd been taking for years, so I can't return to them, with an increase or otherwise.

So, in saying... let's all pray or talk to your higher power, whatever He or It may be, and let's all ask that our OP is getting the help he needs and is OK right now.

We have no clue as to what his actual addiction is to. But, we can all hope he takes his own clues and listens to some good advice here and anywhere else he can get it.

Good luck I6, we're thinkin' of ya.