my friend has been straight for 5 months after 15 years of drug misuse and i dont want to celebrate too soon!
2007-03-18 01:25:18 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
a friend of mine was a secret smack head for years. he was a partner in a business, spent all the business makings and ripped a lot of people off. he lost most of his friends, his share of the business and nearly his wife and child.
heroin is such an addictive drug, it changes people. this friend was a true comedian, a local famous face, but heroin changed him. we dont have anything to do with him any more cos of the countless crappy things he's done but i hear he's off it....however, he will never have the complete trust of his family and remaining friends.
he stopped cos he had to, he was in too deep and his family didnt know until they got tipped off by a worried friend. i feel he would never have stopped if it was left to him and the slightest hint of stress he'll be back on it. he is still in denial over what he did and blaims everyone except himself for the loss of his business.
i think if your friend chose to stop, that is a good sign. 15 years is a long time and maybe he/she had truely had enough and got bored! 15 years doing the same thing will get boring!
i would celebrate! kicking this habit shouldn't be taken lightly. it is so hard to do and even if it's short lived, it is still a major feat! 5 months is quite a long time, and i'm sure they have had temptation/ stress etc in that time and if they haven't fallen off the wagon, it should be commended.
the story of my friend will also be seen as something to celebrate, if he gets to 5 months being clean!!
2007-03-18 01:48:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am delighted for you, generally older addicts have more success that younger ones in both getting and staying off. There seems to come a time often age 35-40 years when the mind and body are more ready to want to give up and more likely to succeed.This appears to be totally independent on any regimes of medication used, and is certainly not helped much by methadone.
I was chatting with a locum about addicts only last week in the gym. I was at one time a prison medical officer for 13 years, and he too had done some prison work. We both agreed that the odds of success were very low, that the general picture was bleak, and neither of us had a good word to say for methadone. Personally I think prescribed heroin is better at a pinch.
The most successful group I ever came across in terms of numbers getting off, was in a young offenders institution where they used no medication at all, but put a group of 8 addicts together to support each other in a sealed unit for 2 months. I went over to a conference in Amsterdam and saw prisons there, a similar program with 20 addicts in a unit was having success there too.
I was very disappointed to hear recently that a group of Scottish prisoners were trying to get money out of the system by suing the SPS for putting them through cold turkey. I know its a shitty thing to go through, but as I say I have seen it work at least as well as anything else.
2007-03-18 08:13:47 · answer #2 · answered by Dr Frank 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The brother of a friend of mine was a heroin addicts and has been clean for 10 years with the help of NA.
2007-03-18 10:28:29 · answer #3 · answered by farleyjackmaster 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it can be done but your friend has to successfully leave her heroin friends behind as well to stay off it. She should never let her guard down against heroin. It will poke it's ugly nose in as soon as she thinks she's over it and keep on doing so every time she hit's a rough time. More than anything she has to understand heroin won't make anything better but it will make things much worse.
2007-03-18 01:48:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
there is an threat, yet there is not any longer lots you're able to do approximately it. while i replace into suited out of highschool, I moved in with my now ex-boyfriend. We have been the two doing meth. I wiped clean up, it took lots, and that i had distinctive help. yet he continues to be doing it. All you're able to do is be there emotionally, yet do no longer enable him pull you down with him. i in my opinion moved on, and function been married 2 years, and that i've got a splash female, whom i admire. I nonetheless love my ex, yet I additionally comprehend that he's a distinctive guy or woman now and that's there is not any longer something left i will do to alter that. sturdy success!!!!!
2016-10-18 23:50:02 · answer #5 · answered by fanelle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My brother in law has been clean for 2 yrs (but is now addicted to methadone! sometimes doctors dont help) He broke his circle of friends who used to do it,got himself a dog and the realisation that he has Hep B has hit him hard.
2007-03-18 21:33:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah,look at Pete Docherty, he's a heroin addict but successfully dates a top model...
2007-03-18 01:44:54 · answer #7 · answered by rab333 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two very successful ex-addicts of heroin are Davina McCall and Russell Brand... it can be done.
2007-03-18 01:29:49 · answer #8 · answered by myfavouritelucy 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Wasnt Russel Brand a heroin addict? He has sorted himself out now...just addicted to sex and talking about his dinkle !
2007-03-18 01:28:19 · answer #9 · answered by babscabs 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you should celebrate every week that he gets through
im recovering alcoholic been sober over a year now the first months are the hardest to get through
do something special at the end of the week no matter how small to show that your behind him
2007-03-18 01:29:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋