Need to Get Clean but You Are Afraid of Withdrawal?

There is Hope for Any Addict

Your first waking thought was about using. It does not matter if it was how are you going to get it, where it is, how you going to pay, whatever. Sitting up and becoming fully awake, your second real thought is that this just can't go on any longer. This house of cards has to fall sometime. Telling lies on top of lies to cover more lies is no way to live. Just the thought of it makes your stomach churn. Can withdrawal be any worse than this? Deep thoughts and questions for someone just getting up. Your only real taste of withdrawal was those two days you could not get a hold of your doctor or your connection or waiting on that check. You were so happy when you got what you needed, or so it seemed. After you got off sick, you realized you were not even high, but not sick was good enough. Looking in the mirror, you ask yourself "How did I get here? How is this going to end?"

Well, I can tell you from experience that it can only end in one of four ways:

• Getting and staying clean, no matter what it takes
• Commitment to an institution by family or the court
• Jail and/or prison
• DEATH

Now I am assuming that since you have read this far, you are debating if it is time and if you can really be drug-free. I also know how addiction works and your disease (It is a disease, make no mistake but more on that later) is telling you tomorrow or even never. Look, whether you are a housewife b.s.ing the doctor for oxys, the former pill head who went the cheaper (at the time) heroin route, or someone who has legitimate injuries, it makes no difference. We are in a cycle that, if not broken, only leads to shame, heartache, prison, and death. I cannot pretend that what I am sharing with you is better than the 1,000s of books and millions of dollars spent on treating addiction. What I can tell you is that I am clean, how you can get clean, and how to stay clean if you really want to. I owe it to the hundreds of people who have helped me on my journey to spread the word and I sincerely hope you end up clean. The first hurdle? You guessed right, withdrawal better known as 'dope sick'.