Morphine Abuse Stories

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Morphine Abuse Stories are Important

In meeting and working with addiction recovery patients over the years I have found that one of the most important aspects of their recovery is having the opportunity to share their story, their life experience.

Morphine Abuse stories don’t often have a happy ending but what ever the ending sharing them is helpful.

A former teacher of mine is a psychotherapist, who always talked to us about getting to the “essence of self” when helping people tell those all important Morphine Abuse stories. It is the essence of self that drives the person’s perceptions and creates meaning in life. Your Morphine Abuse stories are important. You are not alone and maybe there is someone who will benefit from you sharing your experience. We encourage you to gather your thoughts and share them with us.

A few Morphine Abuse stories

Here are a couple of Morphine Abuse stories that describe the process of recovery. We’re hoping that you will share your stories with us as well so that others can learn from your experiences.

Many people tell us that it helps them to read others Prescription addition stories because they understand what they’ve gone through a little better. Many times therapy sessions are simply a place where people come and share their Morphine Abuse stories.

You may find that sharing your Morphine Abuse story anonymously is the first step toward dealing with addiction.

Morphine Abuse tears up families, as those watching their loved one struggle with the disease will bear the emotional scars long after the addiction is under control. What might have been concern for the addict at one point in time sadly can turn to anger and resentment. It’s a kind of “Look what you’ve done to us” mentality and nobody has to say anything. You can read it immediately. The family goes down the addiction path too, playing their roles.

Organizations like Nar-Anon and Al-Anon/Alateen are there just for families. Just as the 12-Steps were created by addicts for addicts, those principles were the basis for family groups. And just like the addict, the family member is not alone. There is help and support.


Morphine addict gets clean without 12 steps.

by Bill’s Friend

(Chicago)

Lets call me a friend of Bill. I’m 25 now, and drug addiction
caused me to drop out of college, lose a golf and hockey career, and
obviously cause major problems in my life and families lives.

I
was a daily weed smoker from 17 to 23, but my real problems started
when I injured my knee and shoulder playing sports, and my opiate
addiction took off.

From ages 20-24 my addiction ran my life. 5
expensive rehabs, 5 morphine overdoses, and brief stints of homelessness.
Ive been in AA and NA since 19, with a couple stints of active
“recovery”, or working steps.

My comments are in no way
intended to bash 12 step programs because I’ve seen first hand many
peoples “lifestyles” change for their betterment. Now, I’ve been
involved in 12steps for a while, worked with sponsors and got deeply
into the literature for AA and NA.

In my opinion they are great
books with very useful info to depressed and angry addicts, but the
“general” philosophy that ONLY A BELIEF IN A HIGHER POWER, active
fellowship, and abstinence from all drugs (alcohol included) is the only
way for an ADDICT to change his/her LIFESTYLE. This is not true in my
case. Tomorrow morning will be Jan 1, 2012, which will give me around
14 months clean from morphine and all hard drugs.

I still drink
socially, and smoked weed a handful of times during this 14 months. The
standard response I get from people in the program is, “tell me how
that works for you”. And honestly, when I was deeply involved in the
literature and fellowship, I said the same thing to many people who
proposed alternate ideas of staying clean.

In
my opinion, this is what’s wrong with the PROGRAM, this one size fits
all for recovery just did not work for me. The constant thoughts,
slogans, and meetings wore me down, and after years of involvement I
seriously thought my bottom was death.

Good luck, good fortune,
5 years of near death experience and the lifestyle of addiction, I
finally had enough of it. Bouncing from halfway house to rehab,
stealing from loved ones, hospital visits, and the lose of purpose in my
life was finally enough for me to just say no.

NA and AA say
I’m a dry drunk, or my relapse is around the corner. BS. My history
with opiates is not good, and taking a couple pills just doesn’t work
for me.

I KNOW I HAVE TO STAY ABSTINENT FROM OPIATES, and my
social drinking has not affected this train of thought at all. I don’t
want to do it anymore. So to those out there that have struggled and
tried to get better with 12 steps and haven’t had success, hope is not
lost, and this is just my experience.

Many people have had
addictions and RECOVERED without 12 steps Ex: Robert Downy Jr, Oprah
Winfrey, Charlie Sheen, Angelina Jolie…

If it Works, Work It

by: Ned Wicker

Whether you are a “friend of Bill W” or you’ re doing
something entirely different, you have managed to stay clean of opiates
for 14 months. That’s the important point for people to remember. In
treatment, there is no “one size fits all” approach and we need to find
something that works and work it. Congratulations on your progress!

Treatment
and recovery can fail for a variety of different reasons, so that is
why people need to keep trying and keep searching for the program that
gets the desired results. I am often asked, “How many times do I need
to go through treatment?” The answer is as many times as it takes.

Regardless
of the methodology, a program will fail when the addict/alcoholic gets
in the way and refuses to allow the process to move forward. So often
there are stories about people who say they went into treatment, but
only lasted a few days.

We can blame the treatment center, or
simply claim that it didn’t work, but the real underlying truth is we
share the blame for the failure.

The 12 Steps are very
difficult and they require a brutally open, honest and objective
self-examination. It isn’t pretty and many people shut the process
down.

If you’re in a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy program,
proven to be very effective with many patients, can likewise stall if a
person isn’t willing to honestly assess their thoughts or cannot, for
whatever reason, look at their thoughts in a different light.

Human
nature doesn’t necessarily allow us to trust someone else, or surrender
to a process. We have our own ideas and we believe we know what is
best for us. We know what we are doing. We can handle it.

Even someone who is in jeopardy of dying from their drug addiction will likely tell you they have everything under control.

If it works, work it. We are all different and there are different approaches to treating and managing the disease. Keep trying.

I did it w/o the 12 steps also!

by: Brooke. T

I have a story on this site..You can find it under recovering
heroin addict mother. I tried so hard to get clean with AA and the steps
but I don’t know what it was about them I just couldn’t get clean that
way.

I used heroin throughout 2 pregnancies and I somehow got so
lucky that both of my babies came out completely healthy. And it took
that to make me realize that I needed to stop. Those babies are not
healthy because of what I did while I was pregnant. The only explanation
there could be is that God was taking care of them while I was using.

I
snorted heroin when I was pregnant with my 2 1/2 year old son and I
shot it when I was pregnant with my almost 1 year old daughter. I still
to this day don’t know how I got so lucky but I did and everyday I look
at my kids and feel so blessed to have them in my lives and they are
perfect and beautiful.

It’s sad that I had to use through 2
pregnancies to realize that I HAD to stop but I finally did it. It is
January 8, 2012 and I’ve been sober since March, 2011 with a few brief
relapses but nothing to where I was back to the point of stealing from
family again.

I used once or twice and something popped into my brain and said I needed to stop before it got out of control again!

Well..Good
luck with everything! Take care.


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