There aren’t many things in this world that I could say have changed my life. The one thing that I could always say impacted my life greatly, however, was substance abuse treatment. Not too many years ago the train wreck I called my life was headed directly for the crapper. I had such a problem with substance abuse that I thought everyone else was fucked up. I was never just drunk or stoned. I was usually both drunk and stoned and working on accentuating my buzz with anything else I could get my hands on. It was terrible. The worse part of it all was that I never thought that substance abuse treatment would ever be able to help me. Boy, was I wrong.

My first week at the drug treatment center was hellish. It was hard acclimating to their schedule and their rules. It sucked. I guess being a total skeptic about addiction recovery wasn’t making my time there any better. I came around though and things got better for me. I kicked the habit and I’ve been sober for 3yrs. Like I said: substance abuse treatment saved my life.