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Recovered alcoholic and heroin addict. Any question?

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Mrsfloss · 27/06/2018 20:50

As title says. I have recovered from 20 year history of chaotic drug and alcohol misuse. I have now been sober and clean for 12 years. Anything anyone would like to ask?

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Adambarlow · 27/06/2018 21:57

Have you got any teeth left?

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Mrsfloss · 27/06/2018 21:58

Zena - sorry to hear that. I know that would have been me. I overdosed many times. Flowers

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Adambarlow · 27/06/2018 21:59

Why did you have kids?

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Mrsfloss · 27/06/2018 22:02

Peony - no amount of begging, crying, coaxing from parents and siblings could make me stop. I just took the mickey in the rehabs until I hit rock bottom on my own,

Alanon and Familys anonymous saved us all

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Mrsfloss · 27/06/2018 22:02

Adam Barlow - what do you mean?

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MoneyWhatMoney · 27/06/2018 22:03

Adambarlow are you being deliberately goady? I would assume OP loves her children but was suffering with addiction.

OP, do you cross paths with any of your addict 'friends' now? How do you manage?

Well done by the way, what you've achieved, and keep achieving every day is amazing Star

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Mrsfloss · 27/06/2018 22:03

Adam Barlow I was on sugar free methadine so yes

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SheerKhan · 27/06/2018 22:07

Did it massively ruin your looks?

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Dapplegrey · 27/06/2018 22:07

Well done op.
My cousin was an addict. He stole from my aunt and uncle and other people and we all thought he would die. Then he went to rehab and got sober and remained so for 12 years.
Then he had to have an operation and was given a morphine addiction which set him off again.
He managed to give up again by going back to NA meetings but he said it was much harder to stop the second time round.

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Mrsfloss · 27/06/2018 22:10

Very stable life now. Went to uni in recovery, very stable job, working for the police. Had further children. Married to another recovering addict who is 15 years clean and sober. Eldest children suffered a lot. Foster care when I was in rehab. We have done slot of counselling, I have made amends and they forgive me. Both very stable. Went to uni, good jobs.

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Mrsfloss · 27/06/2018 22:10

Sheerkhan no not really

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marshmy · 27/06/2018 22:14

wow well done you!! For getting clean for you and your children, if i had one wish in the world it would be that my dad would do the same thing, but i doubt it he started ten years before i was born, i'm 20 now and he's still doing it, if i'm being honest i don't know how he's still alive, or how he still has people that care about him(myself included). You've done the most amazing thing for your children, when i was younger i used to think why won't my dad stop taking heroin and be a proper father? Your children can now see in you what i could never see in my dad, which is that you'd do anything for them, you should be so proud of yourself

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madein1995 · 27/06/2018 22:15

Do you think it's possible for someone to get clean under their own steam, or do.they need support from other agencies?

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Mrsfloss · 27/06/2018 22:15

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Mrsfloss · 27/06/2018 22:16

Marshmy Flowers

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SheerKhan · 27/06/2018 22:17

Apart from making you feel fantastic, did heroin ever make you hallucinate, and did you have some out-of-this-world trips and/or hellish ones?

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sunsouttanon · 27/06/2018 22:18

@madein1995 you need professional help as I'm sure @Mrsfloss will agree with a drug addiction.

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Mrsfloss · 27/06/2018 22:19

Madein1995. Slot of my friends done 90 12 step meetings in 90 days instead of rehab and it worked

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Mrsfloss · 27/06/2018 22:20

Made I tried lots of time to stop but as I was dependent couldn’t do it alone

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FatimaLovesBread · 27/06/2018 22:23

Can you spot a heroin addict? Like are there any famous people that you'd see pictures of and think "They're an addict"? Or is it easy to hide?

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tenbob · 27/06/2018 22:28

Crikey OP, you're beautiful!

Did you associate with other addicts? Did you think you could stop if you wanted to, or did you realise you were an addict?

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bibblebobblebubble · 27/06/2018 22:32

Thanks for answering my question OP. And huge respect to you for turning your life around.

One more if I may. Canada has just legalised cannabis - what’s your view on this?

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peony2325 · 27/06/2018 22:43

@Mrsfloss thank you for answering. I've been looking into Al-Anon meetings so will try to get to one. Has caused untold destruction to our family and just seems never ending.

Wishing you all the best in the future.

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FoodGloriousFud · 27/06/2018 23:05

You look stunning. Looking at you you'd never imagine what you'd been through. Well done for turning yours and your children's lives around x

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LanguidLobster · 27/06/2018 23:17

zenasfuck sorry.

OP do you have a criminal record?

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