I Need Help With My Drug Addiction, but Have a Problem With 12 Step Groups!!!?
Question by Kim T: I need help with my drug addiction, but have a problem with 12 step groups!!!?
I have been using drugs for years. I was clean for almost a year and was going to meetings but had a hard time believing everything they preached, such as you have to go for the rest of your life, don’t think, don’t ask questions, and if you don’t believe in a higher power you are basically doomed. Any suggestions out there as to an alternative to AA and NA. I really want help…
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Answer by beth s
you need to change many things in life get in a sober environment only hang out with sober people i personally don’t feel everyone must attend for the rest of your life i had a really bad coke addiction and i no longer go to meetings it can be hard sometime but you just have to know that the sober rd is always a better rd and you really have to want it if you never need someone to talk to you can always reach me on yahoo messenger best of luck
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6 Responses to I Need Help With My Drug Addiction, but Have a Problem With 12 Step Groups!!!?
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You need to c a counselor and just take one day at a time. If u can quit for a year then you can quit for good. Try to deal with problems as they come and stop trying to escape life. These problems are still there when u come down and still need to be dealt with good luck to you.
I know where you’re coming from. I was on drugs for 3 years and finally, my mom made me quit or she was gonna kick me out. I went to outpatient rehab, aa meetings, and a therapist. to be honest, throughout the whole thing i was occassionally doing drugs. my therapist was honestly the one who helped me quit. and after a while, i wanted to quit. i never really found the aa group that i fit in, but i still went. i hated it though. you just need to research outpatient programs and therapists that specialize in drug rehab. also, change your entire environment and routine. change your friends, job (if you can), activities, everything! That’s how i did it. I had NO friends for the longest, but now I’ve made new friends and I do drink occassionally and I take xanax for panic attacks, but i do fine and don’t abuse either. i had an addiction to pain pills and cocaine when i went through rehab. just get in w a therapist and that should help. good luck.
I know someone very close to me that delt with his.. he went to a 12 step program for about a year and got really involved made speeches and volunteered but stopped going because he felt like you did, he was tired of hearing the same things all the time. But he’s fine now, no more drugs and i think it was because he was determined because of what he would lose. I think I would get a counceler , think about all the people who are affected by your drug use, think abut yourself, and what you could do if stopped using. give yourself a goal and work toward it with a reward at the end, maybe a trip somewhere, a nice dinner. I know that you can do it, I’ve seen people recover after 10 years of using and losing almost everything. It’s not easy, but if you put your mind to it you can accomplish anything. Good Luck in all you do
I too used to go to 12 step meetings and quit going because there was so much drama that came along with it. While I don’t go to meetings anymore I really appreciate all the people I encountered and strength I received! During the first year or so I clung to the program for dear life because I couldn’t stay clean on my own. After awhile I started to realize that I was in control of whether or not I used again and for the last couple of years have maintained on my own. I say take what you need from the group and leave the rest behind. I don’t know of any alternative to the 12 step program; sorry. If you really want to stop YOU CAN! It is not easy but you can do it. Change your people, places, and things and just take it moment by moment.
hope this helps and stay strong!
I think rehab would be a good idea. What you have to realize though is that you CAN’T go back to the drugs, EVER. Doing that would completely reverse anything you’ve done in recovery groups. I would recommend going to rehab for a while so that you can’t be tempted at all.
try spanking therapy.
Russian scientists from the city of Novosibirsk, Siberia, made a sensational report at the international conference devoted to new methods of treatment and rehabilitation in narcology. The report was called “Methods of painful impact to treat addictive behavior.”
Siberian scientists believe that addiction to alcohol and narcotics, as well as depression, suicidal thoughts and psychosomatic diseases occur when an individual loses his or her interest in life. The absence of the will to live is caused with decreasing production of endorphins – the substance, which is known as the hormone of happiness. If a depressed individual receives a physical punishment, whipping that is, it will stir up endorphin receptors, activate the “production of happiness” and eventually remove depressive feelings.
Russian scientists recommend the following course of the whipping therapy: 30 sessions of 60 whips on the buttocks in every procedure. A group of drug addicts volunteered to test the new method of treatment: the results can be described as good and excellent.
Doctor of Biological Sciences, Sergei Speransky, is a very well known figure in Novosibirsk. The doctor became one of the authors of the shocking whipping therapy. The professor used the self-flagellation method to cure his own depression; he also recovered from two heart attacks with the help of physical tortures too.
”The whipping therapy becomes much more efficient when a patients receives the punishment from a person of the opposite sex. The effect is astounding: the patient starts seeing only bright colors in the surrounding world, the heartache disappears, although it will take a certain time for the buttocks to heal, of course,” Sergei Speransky told the Izvestia newspaper.
The whipping therapy has not become a new discovery in the history of medicine. Tibetan monks widely used it for medical purposes too. Soviet specialists used a special method of torturing therapy at mental hospitals. They made injections of brimstone and peach oil mixture to inspire mentally unbalanced patience with a will to live. A patient would suffer from horrible pain in the body after such an injection, but he or she would change their attitude to life for the better afterwards.
”People might probably think of me as a masochist,” Dr. Speransky ( Damn close to Dr. Spanksky— A-Train) said. “But I can assure you that I am not a classic masochist at all,” he added.
The revolutionary method may take the Russian healthcare to a whole new level. The method is cheap and highly efficient, as its authors assure.