For Alexa Morgenroth, Vivitrol worked when nothing else had, after her multiple attempts to recover from drug and alcohol addiction were met with failure. Gabriel,
Drug and alcohol addictions are riddled with secrets, shame, and guilt (McGaffin, Lyons & Deane, 2013). When a partner in a relationship becomes chemically dependent,
You are possibly reading this blog post because: 1) You are curious about the process of heroin withdrawal, 2) You or your loved one is addicted to heroin and you are looking into treatment, 3) You are currently sober and reminding yourself why you stay sober and how you never want to have to get sober again.
Heroin use has doubled among 18-25 year-olds in the United States and is becoming a popular drug of choice. As a result, heroin overdoses have quadrupled and as of 2014, 8,200 Americans die yearly from heroin use.
Self-harm is often considered as a ‘taboo’ topic of which to be kept to oneself or ignored unless there is a perceived suicidal impulse with each cut.
Unfortunately, that leaves the majority of us who have the overwhelming tendency to either cope with stress, anxiety, depression, or a different slew of emotions with a ‘harmless’ cut.
But, who is to judge what type of cut is harmful or harmless? Who’s to say that the collective small cuts may diminish our self-worth enough to leave us no other option but to make a daring dive into the overeager pool of harmful cutting?
“That won’t happen to me; I am a safe user.” – Most Active Addicts
As active addicts or alcoholics, we tend to think we are invincible. We push drug and drink into our bodies with little to no thought about the danger of what we are doing.
If we happen to think about the chaos we are causing our bodies, it is swiftly followed up by the thought, “(Insert addiction related disease here) won’t happen to me.”
The fact of the matter is that death or irrevocable health issues generally go hand-in-hand with addicts and alcoholics. So encompassed by our disease and the mental obsession of the next ‘quick fix’ far outweighs our body’s cry for help.
Now, for the moment y’all have been waiting for, as curated from sober people in Orange County, here is Part 2 of fun things to do sober!
I wish someone told me how to navigate social media when I got sober…
I’m one month shy of my 21st birthday, attending my junior year of college in Los Angeles, and trying to accept my powerlessness over alcohol in the midst of the constant glorification of partying on social media.
Practically everyone I was following on Instagram and Facebook posted pictures of their 21st birthday drink, which was on average the size of Mount Vesuvius, and they looked so put together and happy. They weren’t crying, alone, on their couch with a bottle of Sky vodka and Diet Coke (with lime) watching How I Met Your Mother, wishing they had such dedicated friends… Or just one friend.
Literature is one of the most powerful tools in sobriety.
Literature allows us to access the experiences, strength, and hope of those who came before us.
From the early days of sobriety to, higher power permit, years down the road of our recovery journey, addiction/alcoholism literature can become a monumental pillar in the fight against our disease.
The following 4 books featured in this infographic have either been suggested to me by a fellow trudger or utilized in my personal recovery. Each book visits the depths of despair and hopelessness we feel as alcoholics/addicts in the midst of our disease but also presents glimpses of the freedom, happiness, and serenity of sobriety.
If you have been sober for a couple of days so far, chances are you have heard someone say the word ‘grateful’ in a sentence.
If you have been sober for 1-2 weeks, chances are you have heard the word grateful used in so many sentences you feel overwhelmed by the word and are starting to question whether ‘grateful’ is a substitute for a word other than ‘grateful’.
Understandably so.
Gratitude is thrown around a lot in recovery. You hear the hard-core sober men and women say: “Get off your pity-pot and get in gratitude.” You hear gratitude is a necessary component of sobriety,” and “Write a gratitude list when you get in your head.”
“Since I’ve gotten sober, my life has sucked and I have no fun” -Said No Sober Person EVER
Okay, drama queen/king. I hate to break it to you, but sobriety is nothing but fun.
*Gasp*
Sorry to burst your little negative bubble; you are now free to do ANYTHING. You are a free man/woman from the constraints of alcohol and drugs. You are not bound to anything; you can go wherever you want to go, do whatever you want to do, and be whoever you want to be.
If you’re stuck in the short-circuit thought: “My life is over; I’m sober,” you’re not alone. But, you are wrong.
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