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Insurance and Recovery
what is necessary for a drug/alcohol treatment program to accept insurance in South Carolina?
Read answer →AA, NA and CA. Choices for recovery. Sobriety is the goal!
I am addicted to cocaine. I want to stop but there are no Narcotics Anonymous meetings in my town. Do you know if it is OK for me to go to an AA meeting instead, even though I do not have a problem with alcohol?
Read answer →Exasperated Mother
Does molly come as a rock like crack cocaine? How bad is it for you compared to other drugs? I found some in my sons school bag and he says he got it at school for a party on the weekend and he is just holding it for his friends. Thought it was crack and I was so scared but he said it was just molly which is like E. I am at the edge of losing my mind with worry about this boy and there is nothing I can do or say to get through to him because he has more money than I do. I have taken away all privileges and he doesn’t care because whatever I can take from him he seems to just be able to get from his friends or he buys for himself from money his dad gives him. He does work for it in my ex husbands restaurant but he gets far more than he should so he can afford to party all the time when I have to work two jobs to pay the bills.
Read answer →Dear Long-Time Recreational Drug User
I live in Des Moines. I am a long time recreational drug user, smoker and social drinker. I am not addicted to anything other than cigarettes but I ingest some sort of intoxicating substance pretty much every day. I have just turned 40 and I have had also just had a health scare so I made a promise to myself to stop smoking and drinking and drugs. Unfortunately I am finding it a lot harder than I thought I would. I have been trying for about 2 months and I have probably only abstained on half of the past 60 nights…so not exactly a great track record so far. I think I could use some help with this but other than rehab (which seems like over-kill) or AA (which does not fit me at all) I am not really sure where to look for help with this. I would welcome suggestions from you about what type of assistance fits someone in my position.
Read answer →Call 911 NOW
Hi i gave up smoking cannabis resin nearly 6 months ago but i did have one joint 3 months ago.Im still going through depression with anxiety i have suffered depression & anxiety in the past.I feel very alone and scared is this anything to do with withdrwals.I am diagnosed with agoraphobia and ocd I feel scared quiet a lot the depression is bad and i have suicidle thoughts.Ive quit the cannabis before years ago for a few years then started again for around 3 years before i quit this time.
Read answer →Denied Entrance to Rehab?
Can a treatment facility refuse treatment to an addict due to past failed attempts at program completion?
Read answer →Spice is Not Nice
Does Spice legal high cause long term memory problems and if it does how long does it take before you start to get your memory back. I was a pretty regular user until the fall and I started noticing that my memory was getting really effected and I also was feeling really jumpy and paranoid. So I stopped using and I thought I would get my memory back but it has not happened even 6 months later I feel just as slow and forgetful as if I was smoking every day. But I do not feel as paranoid anymore. I think this is really bad stuff. Its funny (sad funny) I would probably have been much better off just using regular marijuana but I couldn’t because of drug testing so I had to use this nasty chemical stuff that’s messed me up. Sucks to be me.
Read answer →Regrets, Guilt and Shame from a Lost Past.
I did a lot of drugs and a lot of drinking for the past 10 years. I screwed up a lot of things over that time but one of my biggest regrets is that there is so much that happened that I don’t remember. My kids are 7 and 9 now and I can barely remember anything about there early childhood and that makes me so sad I want to cry. Is there any possibility that some of my memories will come back to me as I get more clean time? I am 6 weeks into recovery now.
Read answer →Depression
Hi cannabis resin is not weed its the solid type you burn and put into a joint the depression is still with me now its been 6 months since i quit.I do feel scared & lonely a lot just wanted to know if this is to do with quitting the cannabis and will that scared feeling go away. I am seeing my community mental health team and a councilor the depression just started around 28th december 2012 thats when i quit smoking the cannabis.
Read answer →What to do? . . . What to do?
I have used Cocaine off and on for many years< but after my last binge, i cant get over the depression. I have always been able to get back to work. I dont know what to do, i dont have insurance and every place i called requires it. What can i do?
Read answer →Addiction is a Selfish Disease
I have two kids that are 2 and 4. Don’t know what to do. I am a crackhead and I can’t stop myself anymore I spend my checks until they are gone and then the feeling I have when I smoke that last rock is so horrible. I was the one who used to hold my boyfriends money and I always thought I’d never turn into an addict like he was. I could always just smoke one day a week or two but now it is like binge 24-7. I have no money no family to turn to no friends I can trust and I need help cuz I can’t stop even though I hate it so much. I have no money so I have to go to the mission or human services for treatment but I am so scared that if I do that the first thing they will do is come and take my kids away. I know someone who went in to ask about help and 2 days later social workers came and took her kids away and she wasn’t even that bad.
Read answer →Marijuana Withdrawal: Feeling anxious and paranoid
I stopped smoking last week because pot was making me feel really paranoid all the time. I never used to have this problem. I was the guy that could do grams and grams per day and never get too high and then a few months ago I started to get uncomfortably high sometimes and then I gradually came to realize that I was not really enjoying being high anymore and that a lot of the time when I was high I was anxious and scared and feeling paranoid. But now I have not smoked in a week and it was pretty hard to do that. I was hoping i would be feeling a lot better by now but actually i am still feeling quite anxious and paranoid. Is this a normal withdrawal symptoms of quitting pot or is it maybe that pot was never the problem at all and i am just becoming a paranoid and anxious person all the time?
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