She then began to question me about any other lies I told in the past. I hesitated for a while, not wanting to hurt her any more. But her persistence made me remember my resolve of the previous day — rigorous honesty. So, life as a sober person was very difficult at the beginning. Although my wife doesn’t drink, I couldn’t go to places where alcohol was served and I became a bit of an introvert. At our family Christmas in 2016, I noticed there was no alcohol and a few hours in I asked my father why they weren’t drinking.

• Allison also suffered from anorexia and bouts of self-harming.
• Despite my increasingly frequent substance use, I excelled as a student.
• This journey can take a few months or a few years, with many ups and downs, but it is achievable.
• I managed to crawl in the dark to huddle over the commode.
• Sometimes we talked about getting back together.

It’s never just about the drink,” Zarate says. Born in Michigan and at 13 years old he moved to Florida, by 14, he started experimenting with drugs. After the sudden passing of his daughter, Joe’s addiction went further down a deep hole of despair. Today, Jeff is content and comfortable with who he is, taking on life’s challenges while keeping an active recovery program at the forefront of his journey. Dom’s drinking was abnormal out the gate at 14 years old.

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“But I’m ready to get my life together.” Following treatment, Pardlo moved in with Anika and Lyric — after suffering a brief relapse, he’s been sober since July 2010. “Coley’s business is falling apart. His wife can barely stand to talk to him anymore, and his relationship with his three young children is deteriorating,” the episode summary reads. “He locks himself away [in] the addict’s refuge,” The New York Times writes. Unfortunately, Coley’s refuge was full of dangerous items, including “flammables” and drug paraphernalia. Coley was a married dad-of-three working as a timber cutter — the “deadliest profession” in the USA (per Price Economics). When you added his meth addiction to falling trees and screaming chainsaws, you could sense it wouldn’t end well.

I prided myself on never missing a day of school. I attended all my classes and did my assignments and readings. I was blessed with an extremely good memory. I did not need to study very hard for tests to ace them. By my junior year, I was taking all honors classes and easily passing them, putting me near the top of my class.

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By sharing your recovery story, you become an advocate for change, challenging the misconceptions that often surround substance abuse and those who struggle with it. Psych Central spoke with two people about their experience with recovery from a substance use disorder. If you’re living with a substance use disorder, hearing other recovery stories may motivate and encourage you to complete or start your own recovery. Over the next six weeks, with the help of my counselor and group members, I began to explore my character flaws and incorporate the principles of alcoholics anonymous into my life. Substance Use Disorder can often involve volatile emotions on all sides.

As I sit here writing this story, a counter on my computer desktop indicates that I have been sober 2,105 days, one day at a time. However, what amazes me about this time is that it is 25,000 times the duration I could go at the end of my drinking career without having the need or the craving to have alcohol. He came home very stoned, a few minutes before his midnight curfew, when he gets a call from his other using friend inviting him to go over.

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That fall, the afternoon before my first evening jazz band rehearsal, I distinctly remember my first drunk — on Orange Tango. I remember the taste going down — and coming up. What a great feeling of belonging I had had — something I had never felt before. Shortly this led to nearly daily drinking or smoking marijuana, which at times was easier to obtain. Despite my increasingly frequent substance use, I excelled as a student.

It is crucial to have access to resources that provide support and empowerment throughout the journey. These resources can encompass support groups, therapy sessions, medication-assisted treatment options, and holistic approaches, like yoga sober success stories or acupuncture. Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, and other sober community outings are ways to build communities to share achievements with. He ended up back at his friends (I tracked him), so I was able to sleep that night.

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He leaves, I lock the door, and about 20 minutes later I hear him trying to get in the house, but he was locked out. After 8 months of sobriety, she relapsed and this time we didn’t feel we would get her back. She was homeless and very sick and living 6 hours from us. This is when we started using CRAFT [with Allies in Recovery]. We kept in contact instead of blocking her number.