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How to Start Addiction Recovery
By admin | February 4, 2008
It was fun while it lasted. A few drinks to loosen you up, a couple of hits of cocaine, feeling comfortably numb after “chasing the dragon†by smoking a little heroin. Just having a good time. No harm done, right?
Then it started to become no fun anymore. Those two DUIs cost you a lot of money – and your freedom. A jail cell – there’s nothing fun down that road. Your job’s gone, and so are your spouse and kids. Who’s going to wait around for you when you’re facing criminal charges for possession of an illegal substance? Those bar fights that, as far as you can recall, you kept losing. Your broken nose just had to heal itself; no money for medical care, and no insurance to pay the bill. Your driver’s license has been revoked. Worst of all, if you don’t keep drinking and using every day, you go through really awful withdrawal symptoms that could be fatal due to grand mal seizures. You drink and use not to have fun anymore, but to keep those horrible withdrawal symptoms at bay. You’ve lost everything that is important to you. The next thing you lose could be your life.
When you’ve reached this point, you may feel utterly hopeless and powerless over your drug(s) of choice. You’ve messed up your body and spirit so badly that hell wouldn’t have it. You’re on the road to nowhere. Once you understand this, you have started addiction recovery. That’s the first step – admitting that you are an addict. In fact, addiction recovery cannot begin unless you stop denying that you have a substance dependence problem. It may seem difficult to believe, but when you stop the denial, you can firmly set your foot on the road to addiction recovery.
The second crucial step in addiction recovery is seeking help. This is a problem that you can’t cope with alone. But in drug rehabilitation you are never alone. Trusted friends – other addicts and addiction therapists – will be at your side during your recovery from addiction. A good place to decide what type of drug rehabilitation service is best for you is by discussing your addiction with your physician. After carefully taking your physical history and your alcohol and drug abuse history, your physician will talk with you about the many options open to you for addiction recovery. You will probably need to be medically detoxified to minimize the discomfort of withdrawal and prevent possible life-threatening conditions, depending upon the drugs you’ve been using. Never abruptly stop using alcohol, tranquilizers like Valium and Xanax, or barbiturate drugs like Seconal and Nembutal; the withdrawal from these drugs can have fatal consequences.
Addiction recovery is not only physical, but emotional as well. Depression, anxiety, even thoughts of suicide can happen during the early stage of recovery. For this reason, and many others, you will need a comprehensive addiction recovery program that addresses your physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs. This type of program is most often found in drug rehabilitation centers. Addiction recovery is no mystery to the majority of the staff members because they too are in long-term, stable recovery. They will show you by example that you can, if you choose, find your way out of this nightmare. Sobriety is possible, and your addiction recovery counselors are living proof that this is true.
You start addiction recovery the very moment you acknowledge that you are an addict, and that you will live a life – if you call it a life – dominated by jail or prison cells, emergency rooms, dangerous withdrawal symptoms, drug pushers, bill collectors and you may find yourself homeless, living on the mean streets with other addicts, alcoholics and junkies. No job, no money, and no purpose in life. An anonymous alcoholic and narcotics addict once said,†I’m tired of living, but scared of dying.†Rather than being stuck in this in-between state, through addiction recovery you can get your life back.
Start your recovery from addiction today. You’ll never be alone and hopeless again.
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