Help! I have a drug problem?!

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Illegal drug use may lead to cardiomyopathy (Heart muscle disease). It may also affect your reproductive health. Addiction is a complex but treatable condition.
Many support groups are available in the community. They include Narcotics Anonymous (NA), Ala-Teen, and Al-Anon. Most of these groups follow the 12-Step program used in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). SMART Recovery and LifeRing Recovery are programs that do not use the 12-step approach. You can find support groups in your phone book.

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It depends on the type of drug how much and how long you've been using its hard to give you very good advice on such little info, basically it sounds like you feel the need to use because the drug has become more of a friend to you than your real friends. First you need to realize you have no one to blame but yourself, if you feel as if your friends have abandoned you in a way, get new friends, YOU are the one making the choice to use and only you can change that with pure willpower, that is the only way it is possible you have to truly want to be sober for yourself, otherwise you'll be continuing to make that drive everyday. Think about what you want in your life and go for it and when your realize how badly drugs will ruin your dreams and goals you will want to quit and you will empower yourself to do so. Also support helps if your friends and family don't know maybe you should open up to them so they can help you, but when it comes down to it you must rely on yourself. Find meetings in your area where you can meet people who won't judge you for what you do because they've lived through the same experiences and they are more than willing to help you get sober good luck:)

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What about your family? Is there someone from you family you could talk to? Either that or re-hab. My sister used to do crystal meth and the only reason she stopped was because she got pregnant and then went to jail. She's sober now.. If you don't have family, you can turn maybe go to church. My family is christian and ive seen a lot of change behind that. Theres men at my church who used to do drugs, went to church, accepted jesus and stopped cold turkey.
Anywho, I wish you the best.

Dear Carey,

best way to avoid this to keep yourself busy with other things like making frnds online, listen music, start some hobby classes (may be dance or cooking), involve in social activities.

addiction or drugs will lead you no where. try to find a gud way to keep you busy and you will soon see a change in yourself.

Try finding an AA meeting instead of drugs every evening and be sure to raise your hand and explain you would like help You may substitute the addicts for alcoholics - a drug is a drug - there are many addicts in AA.

sell your car. do it quick, before you can think about it. sooner or later, you'll give up the drugs. 50 miles is a long way to walk.

There's no point in trying to quit. You should just switch to some other drug thats available near you & is cheap. & maybe just occasionally do that one.

Being focused in your job and being in social activities will get you off drugs.

just take more dr0gz

I'll share something with you. (It'll most likely be slightly over-informative, so bear with me)

When I was younger, my mother got into a car accident. She was prescribed pain medication for her jaw, which she had busted up pretty badly. After a while she healed of course, but she told her doctor that she was still in pain, so he continued prescribing her pain meds. She started using stronger meds, and she completely lost herself. Note that she did marijuana and cocaine among other things in her youth. She stopped once she got pregnant with me of course, but I'm getting off track here. Anyway, she completely lost herself. A mere shell of the vibrant woman she once was. She was abusing her medication of course, she'd sleep constantly and when she was awake she would snap at everyone for the smallest thing, such as breathing too loudly. She and my step father had been having problems before the accident, and he was never home to help with my two brothers and I. She couldn't take it and turned to her medication to escape from it all. Naturally, with my stepfather absent and my mother screwed up 24/7, I was left to basically raise my two brothers. We were lucky if she would get up to bring us to school in the mornings. After a while of missing school for no apparent reason, social services got involved. My brothers and I were taken from our parents and placed with my step father's mother and father. It didn't work out for me there. My step-grandmother (is that a title?) invaded my privacy and read my diary. She didn't like what she read, so she had me moved to my nanny's (aunt's) house with her husband and two sons. I was happier there,but it killed me to leave my brothers with Pam (step grandmother) because she wasn't exactly the most pleasant woman, neither was Tony (step grandfather). It seemed like forever before my mother stopped denying that she had a problem. I talked to her every night on the phone in secret (I wasn't supposed to have any contact with her at all). Every night I begged and pleaded and cried for her to bring us home. Every night she told me the same thing, that she was going to get a good lawyer and she was going to fix everything. That never happened. When she finally came to her senses, she went to detox and after that went to a rehab center for women. She got us back eventually. That was Christmas of 2009. I was ten years old. A ten year old feeding, bathing and caring for her two younger brothers. Some way to grow up ey? Now I'm twelve years old, I'm bipolar, I have manic depression,I have extreme paranoia,I'm suicidal,et cetera, etcetera.. I was in high school last year. Was going to take my SATS but I had to drop out because of all the bullying from people. The younger,quiet girl who is always reading a book is always an easy target, right? Exactly. When I was younger, everyone always said 'Now THAT girl is going somewhere.' Now I'm so messed up it isn't funny. Do I sound like a normal twelve year old girl to you? No. And my life started going down the tubes the second my mother started doing drugs.
So you may be sitting there asking yourself 'What's this kid trying to do? Trying to depress me? Trying to make me feel sorry for her?' No. The last thing I want is pity, from ANYONE. What I'm trying to tell you is to get help. Get a therapist, join a support group, go to rehab, attempt to wean yourself off the the drugs, for God's sake. Because no matter how busy your friends are, or how bad your relationship with your family is, or WHATEVER , doing this will only result in hurting yourself and others. Now this may not sound like much of a success story, but the success story isn't supposed to be about me, it's supposed to be about my mother, so I apologize for that. The point is, if she can do it, this woman who has hardly any self control, you can too. I honestly hope you take what I've told you into consideration. The drugs may take the pain away momentarily, but in the long run all it really does is completely ruin your life. Please, get help.

Personal experience.