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How you can get out of the trap of addiction, and stop letting drugs and/or alcohol control your life.
You have no control of your life when addicted to drugs, and YES, alcohol IS a drug, although you may think that you are totally in control. Get out of the trap? I am not trapped, I am not addicted. “One might say.”
Possibly you are thinking:
· I work at a good job making a decent salary.
· I have a home, and a family I am supporting.
· I am not standing on a street corner begging for money and then buy drugs or maybe a bottle of booze.
Or maybe you are thinking:
· I do drugs because I want to, not because I have to.
· It’s a social thing.
· I can control it.
Well, here’s the hardcore truth…
Just because you are a socially functioning addict or alcoholic, does not mean there isn’t a problem there. If you have to have a drink or even a glass of wine, or any mind altering drug to have fun or socialize. If you get up in the morning and you have to do drugs in order to make it through your workday. Then no, you are NOT in control of your life and there are issues to address.
You are just like other addicts who actually know they are addicts and feel trapped in their addiction seeing no way out.
Addicts need drugs and or alcohol just to function or to have fun. It doesn’t matter where we come from or what drugs we do or have done, or how good of a job we have.
Addiction can happen to anyone.
Are you wondering how I know about these things?
I am a 47-year-old recovering drug addict. Drugs and alcohol had control of my life for 31 of those years. I was flying high on autopilot, in the self-destruction mode, and I found recovery just in time to save my life. I have been clean and sober for over four-and-a-half years now. Drugs and alcohol no longer control my life. And I am living a life that I never thought would ever be possible. I am living proof that recovery is possible for anyone who truly wants it. Drugs and alcohol put me through a life of pain and survival through many traumatic events. And caused me to be put in jail more times than I can remember.
I am now a published author of my memoirs titled TRAPpED, a book that was VERY painful to write, and is now giving hope and inspiration to others. In addition, I have the honor of working with an amazing group of very inspiring women, all volunteers, all breast cancer survivors, helping breast cancer survivors. I have a volunteer position as the Ribbons of Life Breast Cancer Foundation’s fund raising chair. A non-profit organization. I feel so blessed to be working with these women. I have a life and a future today, a future without drugs. A future I look forward to.
I lived in hell most of my life, but I clawed my way out. I escaped the trap of addiction and now I am living, not just existing. And I want to share with anyone who cares to listen, how I got clean and have been able to remain so.
Believe me when I say, drugs do control your thinking. They control who we think our friends are. In our addiction, our friends are people we only hang out with in bars, or that we sell drugs to, or buy drugs from, people who would sell their own mother in order to get drugs. Most of our “friends” are people we would have nothing to do with if we weren’t addicts. Drugs also control what kinds of jobs we can get because when applying for a job most jobs do drug and alcohol testing before they will hire you. Most of us have criminal records that keep us from getting the jobs we want. Drugs and alcohol make us lie, cheat and steal. The list goes on and on.
In our addiction we feel trapped, we do not know how to survive without drugs. This reality is just an illusion. We only felt trapped because we knew no other way to live. We didn’t know how to put our hands out and ask for help. In our recovery however we learn that we do have choices, more choices than we can see, and we do have the freedom to choose. Do we want to live? Or
