Tag: addiction stories

by Joelle Marie Lordi, from  NJ.  Thank you for taking the time to read this🌙This is my message of strength and hope! 🙏 my wish is that you will find inspiration and hope🌟 and better understand me! I am not a perfect girl… The journey that I have taken in life has not been easy… […]

By Sara, from  Nottingham, England 6 months ago my dad died from liver cirrhosis. I was 15. He didn’t make it to my 16th birthday which was in April. He had always had a drink problem since before I was born, but it was never as bad as it had gotten in the last year […]

I’m Kailey, from Detroit MI. Hi there. If anyone reading this is “In love” with an addict, I can honestly say, “I know how you feel.” I too, at one point had a heroin addicted boyfriend. I am 22 years old and only a couple years back, helped him come to the realization that he […]

My name is Randy Roberts, from Brantford, Ontario, Canada.  I wrote this in the hopes of stopping some of the stigma “WE” addicts sometimes face. I thought of posting it here in the hopes that not only addicts see it and know they are not alone but that maybe any health care professionals visiting this […]

My name is Debbie Liske, and I’m from Durham, NC. For three years I fought insomnia with a prescribed sleeping pill called Ambien. On Christmas Day, 1999, my Dad died of a sudden heart attack. The next year I started abusing the pill to avoid grief. I lost my job and most of my friends. […]

Hello everyone, My name is ray and I suffer from drug abuse, depression and at the time an untreated mental illness. I’m 23 years old and I’ve already had a life that I wouldn’t wish on my worse enemy. I hope by me sharing my story it will helpng person going through what I have […]

Hi my name is Tiffany Haymes and I am 29 years old and I have a drug problem. I thought I could stop smoking weed on my own and found that I cant. I feel like I cant make it through the day without smoking more than 3 blunts a day and I became so […]