There’s nothing worse than being recommended something to cure what ails you, just to find out that it’s destroying your life. That’s what happened to me when I got hooked on prescription drugs. I got in a bad car accident a few years ago and the pain that I felt was killer. After the whole stay in the hospital the doctor thought it would be best if he prescribed a little something for the not so little pain that i was feeling all over. Since I could barely move from all the injuries that I sustained I agreed with the decision that the doctor had made. It all seemed like it was going to work out before I ended up getting hooked on my prescription drugs. It was a nightmare. I found myself popping more and more pills everyday. At first it was to numb the pain and then it was to keep my mind off of the pain that i was trying to numb. After it went on for a while my wife found a drug treatment center that was experienced in handling prescription drugs addiction. It added a little more pain to my life, which sucked, but I’ve managed to stay away from the pills for over three years already. Drug treatment made me better again and it wasn’t even that painful after all.

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.