medication

My Third Year

My Third Year 1

On 16 July 2011, I celebrated my third year of sobriety. To be honest, I didn’t really celebrate. Staying away from drugs and alcohol hasn’t been my focus since my first year or so. I came to realize early on that staying abstinent, for me, wasn’t the point. In my case and, I believe, in [...]

On Relapses and Cross-Addictions 6

When I was a teenager, I smoked a lot of weed. I also drank whenever I could sneak it. In fact, if anybody had a drug to give me, I’d try it. So, I’ve dropped acid, eaten mushrooms, snorted cocaine and meth, and done speed. I also smoked cigarettes for fifteen years. I grew out [...]

Sobriety or Sanity 7

In the past, my normal reasons for going to rehab was to perform a kind of “reset” on my drinking career. To take a break, rest, and get my health back… in a reasonably safe environment, and then go out and start the insanity all over again. I had found over the years that alcohol [...]