Have you ever suffered from drug addiction? How did you get out/how are you coping with it?

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VGPolyglot said:

So, it is an unfortunate reality, but there are millions of people that suffer from drug addiction. It can be from alcohol, it can be from prescription drugs, or it can be something more hardcore like cocaine and heroin.

Unfortunately, I have known many people with drug addiction. It's possibly as a result to this that I'm averse to taking medication: I haven't taken medication to help deal with my anxiety problems because I'm afraid of becoming addicted, and I don't drink out of fear of either not being able to control my emotions, or of becoming addicted.

Now, my family's endeavours have not ended in a happy outcome. But what about you guys? Have any of you gone through addiction in the past? Did you manage to overcome it? Or are you still having troubles dealing with it?

I take Methodone every day, have for over twenty years , the Australian state of Tasmania where I live produces 50% of the worlds commercial opiate production, so when I was young it was easy to make opium tea or tar, just walk in to a field and get the harvestable poppies then brew it up I won't mention the details of the process , I used it just socially, but when I traveled I got into Heroin, came home and with support from the local drug and alcohol service helped establish a methodone program run by local pharmacies under the auspices of the state health dept ,you get a monthly script from a participating doctor take it to a participating Pharmacy and pay $5 perday  for your dose this payment covers the clerical costs, the methodone its self is supplied free by the federal govt ,everthing else is handled the same as anyone with a regular script except the script lasts a month andyou have 2/3 take away's allowed per week depending on where you live and you have to sign a sheet, my pharmcy is great and the 5 pharmacists who own and run the pharmacy have become friends with the major partner becoming my best friend , he tells the tale of how some pharmacists when he was chairman of the pharmacy board complained to him about pharmacies handling methodone maintanence , his response was it's voluntry and with pharmacies being in most communities they  are the ideal places for such an endevour and  helping addicts helps your community, also he would point out the hipocracy that every pharmacy fills scripts for a great many people like "auntie may "who has for years been on high doses of drugs that are addictive and are recommended for short term use and these same pharmacies have no problem looking after those addicts.