Drug Abuse Counseling: A Former User's
Viewpoint
How I became hooked and recovered from meth with drug abuse counseling.
When I started down the addiction path I did not believe it
would happen to me at all. It started with work, I needed a lift and a energy boost at a factory I was working at.
The boss was aware I'm sure of it but turned a blind eye because he was getting a lot of work done, I think half
the crew was using it. This is the hook, you feel so alive and powerful when you first start, it’s like you woke up
and discovered you were superman. No need to eat. Heck, you don't even think to eat as you have all this
raw power that feels like you can run forever.
When you have this drug addiction you go a little crazy,
after I lost my job I did not care because I could sell meth as my new job. I never bothered to find a new job. I
did not care to notice that my standard of living was slowly dropping. I told myself I was saving so much on food
costs! At this point, I had a three hundred dollar a day habit and nothing else mattered. I felt great when I was
high, but without it I could not even wake up. I was sleeping two days and staying awake for two
weeks.
This drug helps you lie to yourself about what is going to
happen to your future. It was a good thing that I finally got busted, I was down to just over one hundred and five
pounds at 5' 10" and big boned guy. This alerted my family to what was going on even though they lived three
hundred miles away from me. Court ordered rehab did nothing for me, because no matter what anyone says, until I
decided the stuff was bad news for me, I kept on doing it.
I guess I was the lucky one, I noticed that all my drug
buddies where either dead or in prison. When I finally decided to quit, I tried several approaches to drug abuse counseling. What worked for me was moving away from the area I was doing it at to
reduce accidental contact with users, making a rule that if I ever found out a person was using to never speak to
them, and forgiving myself relapses. It took five years with three relapses and using several counseling services
to get clean. I am an addict for the rest of my life, but have been clean for fifteen years married for five, with
four children. This rush is better then anything I got from a glass pipe.
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