Drug Rehabilitation that works

Question by A P: I was sober 4 years and relapsed on New Years Eve. I feel horrible about it and I know why it happened.?
I removed alcohol from my body for 4 years, but did not remove the “lifestyle”. I am surrounded by people who drink. Some are normal drinkers, some drink alcoholically. I was a social drinker in the early stages of alcoholism. I only worked AA for the first 6 months. I remained sober for 4 years out of fear of alcohol and because I liked myself better sober. I relapsed because of stress and pressure to drink. I also am surrounded by people who constantly tell me I don’t have a problem. My husband is a normal drinker, but he still likes to drink, and thinks that I just need to stay away from certain people so that I can drink normally (which is a total joke). His family drinks and my family drinks. All my friends drink, except one but I don’t get to see him but rarely. So, bottom line…I never want to relapse again…I am working AA again and know I need a complete lifestyle change. Any additional advice?

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Answer by bluesun
try again. we all fail. we are human. next time wil be great ok?

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Question by ny-gmen2007: i want to have a drink once in a while but i feel like AA has brainwashed me , 2 years sober?
i have 2 years sober and my lifes pretty good and i dont need it or fiene it at all i just could use an outlet , once in a while to relieve stress i wasnt addicticed to alchol before would only drink once in a while but i was addicted to heroin and oxycontin . i strongly beleive that i can just drink once in a while and not go back to my old habits and drug use . all suggestions are really appreciated . thank you in advance……
and i feel like i might not have been an addict all along i was just young and insecure but now im growing up and realize how bad drugs are for my health and that with my life in place i can indeed controll and drink only once in a while which AA says would never work it calls it the dream,and obbsession of every alcholic that some day they can and will controll their drinking

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Answer by Ranger4402
I would not ask people in AA for advice on drinking. The most ardent AA members believe if you get strinking drunk just one time then you are an alcoholic. For many of them they fear alcohol so much they have to take that stance so they don’t slip up.

You may not be addicted to alcohol but you might have a predisposition to it because of your addiction to other drugs. This could be a body chemistry issue or the so called addictive personality paradigm.

If I were you then I would find some other way to relive stress. It’s too risky for you in my opinion.

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Question by : Is it normal to feel extremely bitter toward an ex drug addict parent?
I lived with my father from the time I was ten years old to thirteen years old. He was a selfish drug addict who put me, my stepmother and stepsister through hell. He always used to have druggies coming in and out of the house all hours of the night, and was a complete asshole to all of us. Now he’s gotten clean now acts like he was never made us suffer when he was using. Is it normal for me to be extremely bitter toward him, cause everyone seems to think I should get over it.

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Answer by Julia35
I think you have a right to your feelings. I have an alcoholic Father that has put me through hell and disowned me. I even had to put him in rehab. Anyways, if he all of a sudden changed. And decided to be this holier than though person. I would have the same feelings as you.

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Because I think it’s his best invention yet.

wasted, what can i say?

My whole building is full of people that are some of the worst alcoholics I have ever seen… My neighbor is banging a guy old enough to be her grandpa and does nothing but smoke pot and yell at her dog then go downstairs and drink…

Everyone I have met up in Winetka or North Brook, the two most well-off parts of the Chicago-Land area are LITERALLY either alcoholics or CRACK HEADS… LITERALLY smoking crack and abusing pills.

Hillary Clinton is from the area I’m talking about! (Though that would explain some things I have seen her say and do.)

It seems as if I’m the last person on earth to start abusing an intoxicating substance to be able to get through life… And then they all look at me strangely when I complain about how they screwed something up or forgot to do something important because they were too fixated on their substance of choice to give a sh*t about it.

In Arizona, everyone was either an alcoholic or doing meth… I grew up in Ahwatukee! The RICH part of Phoenix… (I wasn’t rich but we had a nice house in the area) and they were catching 8th graders SMOKING CRACK in the wash (dry river bed) behind the Middle School!

A teacher I knew had a daughter that was chased by these crack smoking 8th graders because she came across them while she was walking home from school and they didn’t want her to tell!

For fu*ks sake… Why is it that I am the ‘odd duck’ for NOT wanting to depend on an intoxicating substance to get through my life?

Sigh…

Methadone & buprenophine are currently being used as the standard treatments for what addiction? Do you feel it is effective?

What is a good alcoholic drink that is smooth going down, and makes your body feel numb all over?

A Movie Montage about addictions.

Government money for treatment is harder to come by. The Bush administration’s $12.7 billon drug-control budget request for 2007 earmarks 65% for interdiction and law enforcement and barely 35% for treatment and prevention. A National Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse report found that, of the $277 that each American paid on average in state taxes to deal with substance abuse and addiction in 1998, only $10 went toward treatment and prevention.