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The Requiems That Made Me See My Life Wasn’t a Dream
Movies and music have regularly been an influential part of my life, from my current mood to how I would dress or act for any given amount of time. I would not have ever thought that music or a film would have made me see that I had a serious drug problem, but, in fact, they were the only things that got through to me. My walls of denial were so thick that I couldn’t … Read entire article »
Filed under: Addiction, Substance Abuse
Tragedy Strikes Jon Bon Jovi When Daughter Overdoses on Heroin
Tragedy struck Jon Bon Jovi and his family on November 14, 2012, when his 19 year-old daughter, Stephanie Bongiovi, was found unresponsive in her college dorm room due to an apparent heroin overdose. Stephanie is the daughter of the famous rock star and his wife, Dorothea, and sister to Jesse James, age 17, Jacob Hurley, age 10, and Romeo Jon, age 8. Stephanie, a recent graduate from the prestigious $35,000 a year Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn, New York, and former Red Bank, New Jersey resident, had been attending Hamilton College, a private, four-year liberal arts institution located in Clinton, New York. After being found unresponsive in her third floor dorm room in Hamilton College’s Dunham Hall, authorities rushed her to the hospital where she was revived. A search … Read entire article »
Filed under: Celebrity
Methadone Maintenance
During the last days of my most recent run, Methadone maintenance sounded like my only viable route towards ending my thirteen-month long relapse and maybe having a life again. Before I was kicked out of the New York City apartment I had been sharing for several months due to the discovery of one of my dirty needles in the couch, a family member put me in touch with a second cousin who had been a … Read entire article »
Methadone Treatment
New studies done by researchers at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health have found that long-term methadone treatment is the source of changes made to the brain. They concluded that methadone treatment may be affecting the nerve cells in certain regions. The study was done on rats rather than humans because studying methadone patients is difficult and attempting such a study on healthy volunteers is unethical. Past studies and research have shown that the drug can affect the cognitive functioning of both rats and humans. The study began with experimental rats being given a dose of methadone every day for three weeks. Once the treatment concluded, certain areas of the brain were removed which are essential for learning and memory and examined for neurobiological shifts or damage. In one study, after … Read entire article »
Filed under: Alcohol and Drugs, Featured
A Personal Experience with Naltrexone
Hi. My name is Michael, and I am an addict. My drugs of choice were opiates (heroin mostly) and methamphetamines. Three months ago, I began taking a drug called Naltrexone, which is an opiate blocker. It helps people overcome opioid addiction by blocking the drugs’ euphoric effects. Basically, it makes the addict not able to get high off of heroin and other opiates. Naltrexone was approved by the FDA in 1984 for opioid addiction, even though … Read entire article »
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Russell Brand – “Jealous” of Drug Addicts?
In an upcoming BBC Three documentary, Russell Brand reveals his “jealousy” towards his former drug-addicted life. Footage shows a now clean Brand watching an old video of his lanky twenty-something self smoking heroin in a seedy Hackney flat. Entitled “Russell Brand: From Addiction to Recovery,” the documentary features commentary by Brand saying, “This is when you know it’s a disease. It doesn’t matter that I was sat in that flat in Hackney and now I’m in the Savoy. I’m jealous of me then. It doesn’t make a difference to me. The money, the fame, the power, the sex, the women – none of it. I’d rather be a drug addict.” Judging by some of the comments and titles of articles I’ve read on various online publications, which suggests Brand is either … Read entire article »
An Addict’s Will to Change
I had fifteen months clean before I relapsed on May 11, 2011. My run lasted a little over a year. I thought I would only use one time so I could escape from the immediate situation and the hell inside my head, but heroin doesn’t work that way – certainly not for me. One night turned into a year and I still feel like I just woke up from some awful fever dream. The first few … Read entire article »
Filed under: Recovery
Hopefully the Last Goodbye
Heroin withdrawals are by far the worst thing I have ever experienced in my whole 19 years of living! I was using heroin from the age of 16-18. The drug made me somebody I was not. Detoxing was never an option for me. I was scared and worried to go through the pain. But in September of 2011, my life became a living hell. I realized that I needed to go to treatment because of … Read entire article »
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Chris Herren: Tale of a Junkie
The news has been rampant with celebrity drug addicts these days. From Demi Moore to Whitney Houston, America has become used to this type of news. What society rarely hears about are the people that have almost made it to stardom, and lost it all to drugs. So many poor souls have almost reached their dreams; only for them to be crushed by their own self-sabotage. It’s a brutal world we live in, and this is something that is commonplace. These people have a far better message to send than the celebrities of old. Some have even taken their downfall and turned it into a source of inspiration for others with substance abuse problems. Chris Herren is one such person. Chris is from the small town of Fall Rivers, Massachusetts. This … Read entire article »
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