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Drug Rehab Success - Amanda's Story

"I started using drugs at the age of 13. I started out with marijuana and soon moved to using meth at the age of 16. Soon after I got married and this is when I had a best friend to use with. My husband and I used drugs, sold drugs and were basically addicted to drugs right off the bat. Everything we did revolved around doing drugs.

After about 2 ½ years my husband decided to stop using drugs. It wasn't that easy for me to quit. As hard as I tried I couldn't seem to stop using. Once I decided that it was too hard to quit, I decided to leave him.

I got an apartment in town and started living life on my own. I got further and further into drugs. I got so far into the whole scene of it that in my mind there was no way out. I was selling drugs every night and trying to hold a job during the day. I didn't sell drugs because I needed the money; I sold them because I had power over people that were addicted to the drugs.

By this time I was shooting methamphetamines everyday, taking acid and ecstasy on the weekends, and coming down off of all those drugs with pills and weed. My body was a wreck and I was only 21 years old. I got put in the hospital for kidney failure the first time on November 3 and then again on December 7th. The third and last time I went in the hospital was in January, and this is when the doctor said that there was nothing else they could do for me. The doctor asked my parents to leave the room and he told me that if I didn't quit using drugs then my kidneys would fail completely and I would have to be put on a dialysis machine. I was in shock that I had done this to my body, but still I couldn't quit using.

Through everything that I have told you the one thing I haven't said was how much I hurt my mom and dad. First let me tell you that growing up in my family was a joy. I had the best parents a kid could have. They didn't spoil me with money, but they did spoil me with love and attention. When I got married I tried to hide my drug use from them, but they knew what was going on. They just didn't know how to confront me or even what to do to stop me. After I got divorced I grew even further away from them. I remember yelling at them when they would ask me about being on drugs. I would go out to eat dinner with them at their house, and I couldn't even eat because I was so high on meth.

Finally it happened. My sister called me and told me that my dad was dying. She told me I had to go to the hospital right away. I hung up the phone, threw it in the glove box and acted like nothing happened. I didn't answer my phone for 2 days. Finally I called my sister and she told me I had to hurry to see him. So I went to their house where my whole family was waiting to do an intervention on me. I walked in and saw my dad sitting in a chair that my sister said he had been in for 3 days. He hadn't slept, eaten or even moved. This is when I realized that I was the one killing my own dad. I went and sat beside him where he begged me to get some help. I knew if I didn't do it then he would die because he had to watch me kill myself by using drugs.

My mom told me about a place that they wanted to take me to. We got in the car at midnight and drove 7 hrs. straight until we got there. I remember being so scared. It was funny how, before that point I didn't want to see them, and now I didn't want them to leave me. I knew that I had to stay and they had to go. It was the only thing that was going to save me and my dad.

The staff here are great. It was hard going through the withdrawals, not just from the drugs but also from my family. Once I got into the sauna and started sweating the drugs out of my body is when I really started feeling a change. I started having emotions, cognitions and realizations about how I really want to live my life. This is when I truly decided I wanted to be drug free. The rest of the program was truly inspirational. The staff here didn't tell me what I should do or tell me how I should think, they just showed me the way and let me do the work.

I no longer have to hide things that I do from the people that I love. Finally, after 10 years of using drugs, lying to my family, lying to myself and living a hectic life full of chaos, I can be comfortable being who I am. To tell you the truth, I'm a pretty good person now.

Thanks for being here to support me and showing me the way to a new life. "

Amanda. –  Program Graduate

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