Question by Michel: Do you think it’s possible for a recovered alcoholic to be able to drink again like non-alcoholics?
I remember reading a while back about a controversial new rehabilitation for alcoholics where they teach you how to control your alcohol intake, not eliminate it. What do you think? Do you think this could work for some alcoholics?
Best answer:
Answer by tkahrs12122 No! never! Not worth the chance! Dumb idea!
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I have been doing Methadone for three years, now I am trying to get off of it. I am ten days into it. It is the hardest thing anyone could go through. I was wondering if I use oxycontin after withdrawing from methadone for ten days will it start the withdrawals all over again.
my b/f didnt come home one night and i found out he relasped on crystal meth again we are both ex drug addicts but i have better will power then him he also did a sexual act with the guy that he did the drugs with …how the heck do i trust him now when he goes out with out me ….
So its decided I am going to California in Aug. The household is too intense. My mom bangs the walls, yells hits, screams for no reason. My brother has my 30inch LCD and now I want it back but my father says that is my brothers. They argued with me told me I was worthless and ugly. So the other colleges I applied to are out of the question. I just called tampa univeristy to withdraw my application. I need help to deal with this until I leave in Aug. To be honest I dont really think I am going to make it. Every day I overdose on drugs because of this. This whole envrionment changed me. I am very calm when my mom has her bi-polar episode then my brother makes it worse insulting me and adding more fuel to my moms rage and takes it out on me. I have so much medication that everyday I overdose. They hospitlized me two times couple of months ago, for no reason. I was taking my medicine responsbilty and they assumed I was abusing it and had an eating disorder. None of this was true. Now because of all the lies they told me, doctors and family members I devloped an eating disorder, I abuse all of my medications every day, and I dont think I am going to live much longer. When I walk my heart hurts really bad. My pulse fluctuates dramatically from 55-170 everyday. Rehab will only but me back in the same situation! I just need to get out of here ASAP before I sersiouly die. I amn not overreacting or anything, but the abuse in the household is just unbareable. I do everything from reaming calm, asking questions as to why they are mad, remove my self from that situation but it doesnt help.Thank god its almost june, but seriosuly I am already contemplating suicide. I dont want to hear answers of seeking help, like going to a hospital or so forth because look what it did. I was a normal kid using adderall responsbily and after being tackeled by my father for no reason to go to the hospital tramatized me. I threathened them with eveyrhting and told them I get w.e. medication I want and they had to aggree cause I was about to leave ny again. This is not who I am. I dont understand why they do this, but I need serious coping skills. I am telling you, I dont want to hear go to hospital or rehab as I really dont have hte problem. I am just not dealing with the problems correctly. I am afraid if I ever go back to the hospital, I will die. I will proab gain weight. Become hestrical, overdose on meth, coke, or something and that it. I just need some serious guidance to deal with very verbally abusive manipulative people. Because with the rate how things are going I wont make it to Aug. four days ago I overdosed on Wellbutrin and had a seziure because my mom said all of this horrible stuff and my brother instigated it. It was so cruel and evil. Theres no other way I can deal with this?
I mean they said I went to the hospital for my own good? I was correctly using my medication and out of the bloom they drove my slowly crazy. I am telling you I need tips instead of short answers like go see somone. I dont have that avaliable right now! If you dont really listen to what I am trying to say and say stuff like rehab or seek help then I guess, this will be an anna nicole case in scarsdale. Its not that I am addicted to drugs its just the abuse in the fmaily is too much and there is no way I can deal with it. I have no family members that are supportive. I dont know, but please give advise.I am one step away from being a coke and meth addict. And mixing these with prescriptions well…end in death. Honestly if everyone thinks its hearsay horse say well, or doing this to cause attention well beleive that. All I really want is strategies to deal with this until college starts in aug. Because everyday I take more and more. Soon, I just might now wake up.
I am felling better, IO keyed my bros car so many times and soon ill key my moms car. MY dad, honestly if I saw him here I would put chlorine in his water and watch him die, so I am hoping he doesnt ever visist me.
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I figured I’d cave at 25 comments even though i wish we could have gotten the 30. *NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED. ALL CREDIT FOR THE PICTURES, VIDEOS, AND SONGS GOES TO THE RIGHTFUL OWNERS* has anyone’s message counter thing disappeared yet? it’s getting kinda annoying cause i can’t tell if there’s actually a new message or not. — “You sure that’s all it is?” “Yeah. I know she has a boyfriend and doesn’t want that kind of relationship with me, and she knows I don’t like her that way. She says it’s easier to talk to me because she knows I don’t expect anything from her. You guys should try it.” I was satisfied with what I had said, and they looked shocked enough, so I started walking away, but then I turned back to say, “Oh and you guys may wanna relax a little around her. She feels weird, thought you guys had a problem with her.” With that, I walked off with a smirk on my face. {Hayley’s POV} That night I went to dinner with Joe, Nick, and Kevin. I was a little hesitant to go with all three of them. I had been hanging out with only Joe, but he assured me Nick and Kevin were feeling better, whatever that meant, and that it would be fine. And I actually had a really good time. Obviously Joe and Frankie weren’t black sheep in the way I had thought. The entire family was pretty cool. But I wasn’t entirely sure yet; they had to prove themselves the way Joe had. We were leaving early the next morning for Europe, so we all headed back to our rooms kind of early. They …
Hey so you guys can basically can thank Lauren (acoustichearts94) for this since she asked me on twitter to post. but i was kinda disappointed with the comments. oh well. this has two parts cause the medical stuff and all takes awhile to explain. you’ll see why don’t worry. and just to be clear when i said i was going to college i DID NOT mean i’m gonna stop posting. it will just be different obviously. *NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED. ALL CREDIT FOR THE PICTURES, VIDEOS, AND SONGS GOES TO THE RIGHTFUL OWNERS* —- “Okay, I’ll try my hardest.” “Thank you. I love you baby girl.” “I love you too.” He kissed my forehead and rested his head on mine for a few seconds. Then he laughed a little and said, “You know, we have the hospital overwhelmed and freaking out. I don’t think they’ve ever had this many visitors for one person before.” I smiled. “Really?” “Yep, not only are Kevin, Joe, and Nick here, but so are Mr. and Mrs. Jonas, Frankie, Big Rob, Jack, John, Ryan, Garbo, all the horn and string players, Andy, Alex, Jason, Mike, Jordin, Demi, Ron, Shawn, and Tyson.” [a/n the last three are just random names... pretend they're crew members that work with her dad closely] “Wow.” “Yeah, it’s a zoo out there.” “Can I see them?” “Only a few at a time. I would suggest starting with Kevin, Joe, and Nick. They’re the ones that found you and they’re very confused. I figured you’d wanna explain.” “Okay, can you send them in?” “Absolutely.” After he walked out, I looked down at my …
Staying sober is hard, takes work, and there is no guarantee; and anyone that promises you differently is lying.
A month or more of residential rehab gives you the tools you’ll need to stay sober, and almost half of all people participating in a rehab get enough out of the experience to stay clean, sober and happy for good. Unfortunately, slightly more than half (even a lot of people committed to abstinence and sobriety) find that despite their efforts and commitment, they cannot resist the pulls of temptation and find themselves using and abusing again; and often not long after graduation from a drug or alcohol rehab.
There are no guarantees, but following these 5 steps to sobriety after rehab gives you a much better chance of never again feeling the pain of abuse and addiction.
5 things you need to do to stay sober after rehab
1) Stay in aftercare
The single greatest thing that you can do to ensure success and sobriety is to maintain a long and intense commitment to aftercare therapy. Aftercare can mean 12 steps group meetings, group peer support sessions and can mean continuing regular sessions with a therapist. Find something meaningful and resonant to you and stick with it, and stick with for longer than you think you need to. Overconfidence and a minimization of aftercare are incredible predictors of relapse.
2) Keep busy
Too many of us recovering addicts coming out of rehab have no idea how to spend free time without getting drunk or getting high, and filling free time without use challenges our creativity, and too often leads to temptation and abuse.
You need to have plans for those moments of boredom. They will come, and they will trigger temptations to abuse. Get out and get busy; volunteer, join a club, play sports do whatever you enjoy and whatever keeps you busy enough that you don’t have to worry about free time temptations to abuse.
3) Take care of yourself
Getting hungry, getting tired and getting lonely all trigger cravings to use, and so by taking good care of your body and your soul you preempt risks to sobriety before they emerge. Eat right, get enough sleep and make sure you have a long list of sober friends you can call at any hour of need.
4) Follow your relapse prevention plan.
You worked long and hard on it in drug or alcohol rehab for a reason, and you need to follow that plan to the letter. The relapse prevention document is the bible of the first year, and those that start to ignore the recommendations of the plan, ignore the known triggers to use, and the situations likely to prompt cravings; are surely asking for trouble.
Wait a year; if you make it that long, you can reconsider you plan, until then, don’t mess around with success.
5) If you slip, it doesn’t mean you need to fall back into full abuse.
Even if you do everything right, there is no guarantee that you’ll never again have a moment of weakness and find yourself again using. The next morning, when the weight of your actions sweeps over you, it’s too easy to accept defeat and fall back into old ways and destructive habits.
A slip doesn’t have to become a relapse. Get immediate sober support, learn from the experience, and get back into aftercare with a vengeance.
If you handle it properly, a slip can strengthen your ultimate resolve, and increases the odds of long term success.
Recovery is hard, it takes work and it requires commitment. You need to do everything in your power to minimize the temptations to use, and even then there are no guarantees. Follow the advice of your therapist, follow the advice of other addicts with years of sobriety, and follow the 5 steps to sobriety as outlined above; and you have a great chance at a lifetime of better living.
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