It’s Not Easy, But You Can Stop Drinking
Alcohol has been around as long as we know. And with alcohol, comes alcohol-ism. It certainly doesn't appear over night. However, given a genetic predisposition, and usually a psychologically traumatic event, the infamous 'ism' can take hold. Before you are aware of it, it has become impossible to stop drinking!
Your loved ones won't understand why you can't seem to put the bottle down. Chances are, neither will you. A lot of us alcoholics have no problem stopping drinking. Our problem is staying stopped. If you can relate to that, it is unfortunate. Luckily, there is hope. With cutting edge science, there are all sorts of different types of help available to alcoholics. These tools can be used to help us to restore our thinking to almost the same as before we ever even picked up a bottle.
How Do I Stop Getting High?
Believe it or not the process is almost identical to that of stopping drinking. In fact, you can go back over the previous section. Replace alcohol with whatever your drug of choice is, and it should still make sense! The reason for this is that alcohol is just another drug. It happens to be legal, and more socially acceptable. But, a drug is a drug!
So, the question that we're left with is simple. How do we recover? Recovery is a process, not an instant change. Where addiction is a disease, or disorder, or some other problem, the process is still the same. In my own recovery, I have found no shortcut to be an acceptable substitute for hard work. There are plenty of experimental therapies that you could try; like ibogaine treatment, or suboxone / subutex. These are all well and good, but if you're not addressing the underlying issue in an abstinence based setting, you will probably end up going right back to old patterns. A lot of people ask me, "Is suboxone an opiate?" The short answer is yes. It's a partial opiate agonist. Which means that it affects the same receptors in your brain as heroin. While undergoing suboxone therapy, you are still taking opiates. Which is why facilities that I work with closely will only consider using suboxone therapy as a detox protocol. This means that they may give you the drug to make you comfortable, but they would ween you off of it slowly so that you can go back to a normal life. There are plenty of detox protocol drugs to make you comfortable through the process with other drugs as well. For example; alcohol, xanax, klonopin, meth, cocaine, and molly or MDMA all have a specific detox protocol.
If you are still wondering why I bolded the word we earlier, I will explain. Addiction is a problem that is near impossible to overcome alone. When I say we, I'm saying that we can not do this alone. We need the support of other addicts to overcome this problem. Don't ever be afraid to ask for help.
