Personal Story Project: Addiction And Its Impact On My Life

Clearly, having gone through something as significant as recovery from substance addiction, my idea of what my purpose in life is changed significantly some years ago. While I don’t intend to victimize myself for choices that were my own, its significance and impact on my life cannot be understated.

Ice, crank, meth, crystal, tweak, go fast otherwise known as Crystal Methamphetamine, in the United States is at epidemic levels. 1

This book is basically about a young man who got addicted to drugs and alcohol and eventually recovered in the end after so many failures. William Cope Moyers had everything. This kid had a better childhood than others and family. He was raised in a very “proper” family where they would say grace during dinner and believed in God. Anyways, he had so many advantages and he tuned into a drug/alcohol addict which i couldn’t understand why at first. He began smoking marijuana, using alcohol, moved onto cocaine. He even left his wife and kids. That’s how obsessed he was. In the end, when he recovered and all became well he actually started helping other people who were addicts just like him.

Researchers at Stony Brook University have compared going through a broken heart to a cocaine addiction. Yes, that’s right, I said cocaine addiction! That sounds pretty powerful to me. “Researchers have also found the area of the brain that is most active during the anguish and pain of a break up is the same part of the brain associated with motivation, reward and addiction cravings”. “Just like a drug addict we go through withdraws, the rejection feels so bad because we actually get addicted to the relationship”, and when the train leaves town we go through withdraw, sounds pretty scary “withdraw from drugs” WOW! I’m just not imagining that I feel like I’m going a little crazy, what a relief. I guess being weak has nothing to do with it,

The experience of trauma can bring about feelings that are difficult for anyone else to understand. The feelings become even more complicated with addiction. It is important for practitioners to first understand the relationship of trauma and addiction to one another. Once the relationship is better understood, connections can be made to possible treatments and why those treatments should be used. Research testing these treatments can give possible avenues for practitioners to venture when faced with someone who is recovering from trauma and also facing a substance use disorder. The research available is a good start when trying to define the relationship between this co-occurring disorder.

My experience with overcoming the addiction has been a great experience. Using social support, identifying and eliminate triggers, and medical treatment have been a great methods to overcome smoking addiction. I have used all my methods and techniques on people that I know who smoke and are willing to also overcome that addiction. As I am now comfortable to help anyone and anybody who are in need of my help and be willing to provide them with all the sources that I have used to overcome this addiction. I could use this experience and be able to talk about it during my church meetings. At that meeting, we talk about our weakness and strength and share that with one another. I believe that using this technique could help a lot of people out who are struggling to quit.

into tender eyes that had not yet adjusted to the outside world. Had he not been the car's owner, he might have considered puncturing its tires, but deciding upon a lesser (cheaper) form of objection, he fished around in the breast pocket of his jacket for sunglasses, before entering the street behind it.

Before we got in the line we had these people buy us alcohol but we are running low and sobering up and it's only about five at this point and the show didn't start for another six hours. We ask a couple of people to buy us alcohol but it wasn't the right moment. We ask this boy who looked well under our age to buy us alcohol. Just by his appearance, his skinny, long torso and long legs and neon green shirt make him look like a highschooler. “But, he has the bright orange wristband that says 21” I say. Wendy goes over to asks him and he says yes and she gives him the money. After a couple of minutes Wendy and I start watching and noticing they were talking. “It looks like they are just going to take the money and run.” “They aren't even getting in the line to buy the beer.”

Growing up I have heard many negative stories revolving addiction towards video games and the misusages of computers. However, it had the most positive impact in my life because it was a channel for me to comfortably express my personality and expertise. During my middle school years, I experienced multiple episodes of seizure leading to my diagnosis of epilepsy. I had to take very strong medications twice a day made me feel abnormal, excluded, and subordinate compared to the rest of my classmates. I performed extremely poorly during those years, causing everyone I knew to look at me as a failure because I was ashamed to admit my condition. On an interface like online video gaming, I felt normal compared to others because I was considered very

Whenever you were stressed, depressed, or wanted to escape this living hell, you would take a sip.

You know we might have met in my own shit storm I’d like to think you always had my back. Because during it all I closed my eyes and only thought of you. I only wanted to talk to you one on one and I felt like I’d never get to do that because you were surround by my “unsafe” people, even if I saw you pursuing me I knew they’d still be around you, it confused me even more. I do believe you realized when I laid my head on you, how much I loved you and always would.

My present knowledge of addiction comes from lectures, watching a documentary film, and movies as personally I have not experienced or developed an addiction besides coffee intake that I have in regular basis; however, I have more knowledge about alcohol consumption.

It was buried in my finger throbbed with pain as I ran to my aunt with a fishing rod in one hand and a hook in the other….

Heroin is an illegal opioid drug that is synthesized of morphine. The substance occurs in the Asian opium poppy plant naturally and is then extracted (“DrugFacts:Heroin"). Heroin can be taken in many different ways including being inhaled, injected or smoked. It creates a reaction within the body that gives the user a feeling of euphoria and what is typically described as a “rush”. It is estimated that about 23 percent of users become dependent ("Genetic Susceptibility"). Heroin addiction is a chronic relapsing disease and sufferers show symptoms such as compulsive drug seeking, abuse, tolerance and physical dependence. Addiction to heroin is a worldwide public health crisis.

A person’s body, in almost every aspect of its being, is addicted when one is a mild to chronic user and abuser. The nervous system, brain, and muscle tissue are all living in anticipation of the next high. So, for the addict, it is crucial that the cycle of behavior, is broken. The addict needs to pull up the anchor that keeps them from moving forward. This means changing environments, patterns and even sometimes friends and social associates.