Vicodin Addiction Stories

Vicodin Addiction 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. Vicodin addiction 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 Vicodin addiction stories. It is the essence of self that drives the person’s perceptions and creates meaning in life. Your Vicodin addiction 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 Vicodin addiction stories

Here are a couple of Vicodin addiction 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 Vicodin 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 Vicodin addiction stories.

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

Accidental, but not uncommon

Actor Brad Renfro’s fatal overdose is a sad reminder that heroin use can lead to devastating consequences.

It’s an even sadder reminder that no matter how much money and
resources are pumped into drug education programs, the message still
doesn’t get out. It’s not like this is a new phenomenon. There are many
drug addiction stories involving heroin and fame.

Renfro, who died on January 15, was only 25. Most young users seek the
“rush” that the drug gives. People who use heroin regularly develop a
tolerance to it and that leads to abuse. Abusers need more and more
heroin to get the same “rush” and as the amount of heroin needed grows,
the dependence on the drug takes hold.

Addicts need the drug because
their bodies have become used to the drug being present, as if it were
supposed to be there in order for everything to function. The body can
become fooled into thinking it “needs” the heroin. That is what leads to
overdose.

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Not a Great Night to be an Atheist

Josh Hamilton had a dream
that he would be in Yankee Stadium in a Home Run Derby contest. The 27
year-old slugger from the Texas Rangers had his dream come true July 14,
2008  and he put on the greatest display of power and consistency in the
history of the event. It wasn’t long ago that Hamilton wasn’t a
professional baseball player at all. He was a Vicodin and Vicodin
addict.
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Heroin & crack ruined me!

by Michele

(Louisiana)

I’ve been a heroin addict for 15 years. It brought me so low. I
became a prostitute, lived under a bridge, went to jail, and had a heart
valve replaced caused by bacteria from shooting up. I just got sick of
it.

I also shot up and smoked cocaine with the heroin. It was a
dark, dark world I lived in. The prolonged cocaine use caused severe
paranoia to the point where I no longer knew what reality was.

I
finally just got sick of it. Last November I finished 9 months of a
year long inpatient program. Due to lack of funding the place was closed
and we were all discharged with no place to go.

Instead if
using the coping skills I learned I quickly started using heroin again.
Long story short life got worse and worse. I moved out of state and
haven’t used heroin since.

I have taken pills on numerous
occasions and recently started smoking crack again. It sucks…I feel
like a robot unable to control myself. It’s crazy really…drugs create
insane amounts or problems.

Without the heroin I’ve often
suffered such severe depression I pray for death. Mix cocaine into that
and it’s triple the depression. I wish I never took drugs but since
there’s no point in dwelling on mistakes…I wish more that anything the
obsession to use would be lifted. Don’t do drugs…it might seem fun at
first…but for many it leads to a life of disease..heart
ache…destruction…death.

By: Anonymous

I have been on and off heroin for 7 years .. on one year off one
year etc.. i stopped using permanently about 2 years now and no desire
to go back.

Use either Suboxone or Methadone to get clean and
find something worth living for, the best reasons are spouse and kids.
If you feel like you need something to take off the edge, smoke weed
instead it helps a lot.

Hope for a Better Life

by: Ned Wicker

Dear Michele,

You have certainly experienced
addiction’s dark tunnel to nowhere and I pray that you can find relief.
Addiction, unlike other diseases, leaves so many on their own due to
lack of funding or poor insurance coverage.

I would encourage
you to seek out those in the recovery community, such as AA, and try to
cultivate a support network for yourself. Even though you had
treatment, you realized how easy it is to slip back into old habits.

A
12 Step program might help you to rebuild your life and seek God’s help
in getting you through the rough patches. The steps will work for you
if you allow them to work. When you have no resources, when there does
not seem to be hope, when you feel like you’re at the bottom of your
rope, that’s where God’s rope begins.

I hope you can find peace and return to a happy, healthy life.