I’m in recovery from cocaine and alcohol addiction ask me anything.

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DPs watching a boring film and I’m a little bored so thought I’d go for this.

I appreciate other people views/opinions on addiction but I won’t engage in any posters being abusive and/or rude.

This can be tricky and I really understand the strong emotions and views people have around this.

It really does depend upon the circumstances and the drug. It’s a common misconception that all heroin users are constantly off their face when in fact they need to smoke to feel well. It’s possible to provide children with what they need in this instance. Is it an ideal life for a child? No. But alot goes on behind closed doors even if families of non addicts that’s makes it not an ideal atmosphere for a child and keeping families together has always been SS best interests. This isn’t the case all the time obviously, just rarely.

A lot of alcohol consumption and/or crack/cocaine use is different, but especially if you’re a lone parent, I’m not sure how a child would not be experiencing neglect in these situations and my personal view would be that the children would be best placed in another setting until the parent engaged in help.

Thank you so much! ❤️

I didn’t deal. I did drive like that, it became normal for me. Once I’d really got into recovery and realised how horrendous that was it was very hard to forgive myself for.

No, nothing like that. If I put a face of make up on I could have fooled anyone.

That’s really awful, what a horrible thing to be around. I don’t think my job had much to do with it, I did use drugs with one person at work but it was a huge team and not part of my addiction really.

Sorry I missed this question. In my personal experience I have found that most professionals really do not fully understand addiction at all.

No professional could help me like another alcoholic or addict can. I once told a professional I think o had a problem and they told me I didn’t because I didn’t wake up with alcohol withdrawal - her POV was not only wrong but dangerous.

How are you managing living with someone like that? Are you happy?

What was your rock bottom?

Well done on being clean and sober. Do you drink non alcoholic wine/beer/spirits? What do you drink? I've noticed a lot of recovering alcoholics on tv just drink water or tea and I was wondering if that's because if they drink something that tastes similar to alcohol it would be too tempting.

I am happy enough for now. Weirdly enough finding out that he was an addict (after 5 years of him hiding it) and half a year apart has made me realise I can walk away with ease. I don’t feel obliged to stay with him, but I’m choosing to at this moment in time.