How to stop using drugs

If you like to learn how to stop using drugs here is what I did after spending the last of my money. Keep in mind that at this time I was really sick from an addiction. When I actually made the decisson to stop I knew that I was going to have to face a brutal opiate withdrawal was brutal. I made up my mind that I needed to stop using drugs and made arrangements to go to substance abuse treatment.

I decided on an opiate addiction rehab that could detox me medically for the opiates that's what I was using at that time.

I found that the medical detox was indeed the way to go because the withdrawal was not at all brutal and for the most part painless. It was not the first time I had been through it so I knew what to expect.

After the detox I went to residential treatment. I did well in the program and my therapist liked me which is not so unusual a lot of people do although I apparently did not think much of myself.

Anyway we talked about my chances of staying clean if I went back to my hometown. I could not stay clean there in the past and I actually had numerous attempts so what would be any different this time.

Well I believe that God happened to be with me at this time because there happened to be a long term drug treatment center in the same building. It housed 12 other addicts and so I signed up.

It was full when i signed up but God saw fit to make an opening for me because someone left a couple days before I finished my 14 day stay in opiate addiction treatment.

How to beat Drug Addiction

I created this post to help addicts around the world to overcome drug addiction and learn how to stop drug abuse just like I did.

Here is how I overcame drug addiction after many attempts of trying to get clean and sober. I think I may have went to at least at least six or so rehabs.

I also tried to quit on my own more times than I can count. I would make it 3 or 4 days and I would use again. It seems as though I always got the same results which was returning to active addiction.

I bounced in and out of AA and NA only to relapse time after time because of my addiction to alcohol and drugs. I even remember getting out of a 21 day stay in treatment and going straight to the dope house to get high how retarded is that?

Here is the thing and I can't say it enough if you do relapse pick yourself up and try again.

Sometimes it takes some of us more attempts at getting clean than others. The people around the tables of NA and AA will not give up on you either.

It is possible to learn how to beat Drug Addiction can but you will take massive action if you wish stop using drugs and recover from addiction.

Now as far as my getting clean I give a lot of credit to God and addiction therapy and I would recommend it to anyone suffering from drug addiction or alcoholism.
The treatment center myself and the others were in required us to have a one on one session with our therapist once a week plus we had to attend group therapy with her twice per week.

I remember her giving me assignments to do like to share my feelings with someone when they were hurt. When she first asked me to do that I was like ya right. My thoughts were men don't do that and she would say something like oh so men don't get their feelings hurt; furthermore, she would say why not just give it a try you will not die so I did. I was scared I thought I would get them hurt again or something but I did it anyway well every thing turned out just fine.

She also used to tell me to share at meetings because I did not like sharing I thought that I sounded stupid or something. Basically almost everything I did was new to me. Before I stopped using drugs I never did anything that did not involve using drugs or drinking alcohol.

I tried new things like going to 90 meetings in 90 days which turned in to 180 in 180 days. I also made a lot of friends that truly had my back not like the BS lies that came from my using buddies or rent a friends.

I went back to college and felt way out of place. I was scared shitless because I only had a GED and did not think I belonged there. I faced this fear and now I have a 3.5 GPA and I very close to getting my bachelor's degree in Social Work. My hope is to some day to use my degree to help other addicts like myself and get paid for it.