Helping a Drug Addict
- Tojo 1213
- Oct 14, 2018
- 2 min read
It's difficult to understand how people become drug addicts. I get mad at the people I've lost for choosing that first experiment. There are so many emotions that are brought out when dealing with a drug addict. Drugs hurt more than the people taking them and drug users are numb to that fact.
You cannot force someone into rehab but you can stop yourself from enabling their habit. I had thought I was helping. I wasn't helping, I was enabling and by the time I realized it, it was too late. I was naive and uneducated and lost multiple people to drug use. It is painful. Incredibly painful.
One experience of drug addiction in my life was with my ex. He had been a great partner for about 10 years. Then he experimented. That experiment led to abusive behavior and a deceitful lifestyle that would ruin our family. It crushed all of us. I knew something had changed but I had no idea what to look for.
To prevent others from that same mistake, here is a link for help in recognizing indicators and symptoms of a drug abuser.
My aunt was a drug addict. She did an array of drugs from heroin to pills that I have no idea how to pronounce. It would ultimately be heroin that would take her life. Our family, her friends, everyone around her, turned their backs on her because she was an addict. I never knew exactly what she did until I was cleaning her house out and pills were coming out from everything we moved. I wish I had known how to help her.
I could detail my experiences with each of the people I've lost. There are good, bad, and very ugly memories. I am sure everyone has those, right? When I look back on the good, they are tainted by wandering memories to the bad and very ugly. I don't want those to be the memories I keep. I want to remember the good. I could detail that good but then it would miss the message I am trying to send today. Stop enabling your loved one and start taking a stand against this horrible epidemic that has a stranglehold on them.
Here is a link to a wonderful post for people who have someone they love addicted to drugs.
It's difficult to get people to go to rehab or to help themselves but here are links to Narconon and ways to get help.
I wish I had been stronger and more educated on drug use and abuse. Now I am hoping someone can use these links to help them in their own situations. Comment if you want to talk about it. Best wishes to you .
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