By Tami Ash, from Cleveland, Oh Hi, my name is Tami. I’m 42 years old, married, the mother of 6 children, and a grandma to 8. I started getting high when i was 12 years old. My mom died and I blamed everyone. I first used pot, then quickly started doing anything I could get […]
I have to say, looking back at my childhood, it was not so bad. From a family persepective that is. To sum it up in a nutshell, when I was 2 (and I remember this like yesterday) and until I was 4 years old, I was sexually abused by someone very close to my family… […]
By anonymous, from US My addiction became my knight in shining armor, and it came to fill the empty pages of my life’s story. I had reached out, only to find no one, and it came to be the only one who ever reached back. It became the arms to cradle my brokenness, to tell […]
by lydia, from San Antonio I’m a 16 year old addict. My addiction is being addicted. I have one of the most addictive personalities. When I was 6 years old, my fathers military career moved us to Germany. I was being sexually abused by my 16 year old babysitter, his father, and his best friend. […]
by James Hogancamp, from Holly Springs, MS USA James Hogancamp Personal Testimony From a 23 year drug addiction to a life with ChristI started using drugs in the 7th grade. Starting out with pot which I was addicted to since my first high, by high school I was doing cocaine, acid, hash, weed, and drinking […]
by Elizabeth, from Kilgore The party is over. We have had fun and it has been quite a ride. Like all great relationships, you have been with me through thick and thin. You have been in my life for over 40 years. You have been with me since I was 15, and I am now […]
By Maria, from Moscow It all started when I turned 17. In my teenage years I had some harsh complexes and that’s why I always found it hard to communicate with people. All my classmates already had boyfriends and girlfriends, but I still went unnoticed and ashamed. My parents were divorced and I lived with […]
By Holly, from Leicester This is from my boyfriend who is a heroin addict and has been for 12 years. If you love me let me fall all by myself. Don’t try to spread a net out to catch me. Don’t throw a pillow under my ass to cushion the pain so I don’t have […]
By anonymous, from Chicago It can be easy to dismiss it as teen angst, the blues, adolescent rebellion – to explain away a child’s behavior by using these and a bunch of similar epithets. And thankfully, in a majority of cases, a teenager’s behavior may be par for the course, but sometimes parents need to […]
By Ash, from FL I was 20 year old when I started with roxy’s just here and now parting every once in a while. But after being in an abusive relationship and having my head busted open it was my only way to escape the pain. After a month of staying away from him and […]
