yes, i am an EX junkie(i’m 17). for a period of about a year, i was SEVERELY addictied to klonapen, perkiset, codine, fouricet, and sleeping pills. i seriously dont remember much of that year becuase i was pretty much constantly high. after several suicide attempts, and a hospitalization, and intensive (every other day) threrepy, I have cleaned up my act. On april 18th, i will have been clean for a year! yay for me! I’m exited becuase it was a very long and hard battle. my family is actually celebrating it! Mom’s taking me out to dinner, my boyfriend is taking me out, and my friend is taking me to the movies, sweethearts, arnt they? I now speak to freshman health classes about suicide, drug abuse, and depression, so if you want to talk, i’m hear to listen! 
Hey, congratulations! And I really mean that! But nothing to talk about.
Congrats nevertheless.
Yay for you indeed, not just for getting clean yourself but for your willingness to reach out a helping hand to others.
Hope you have a wonderful time with your loved ones on the 18th.
Congratulations to you! This is indeed an important milestone, and definitely worthy of celebration! Hope you have a good time with your friends and loved ones on the 18th! 
Well, I have a question, hope you don’t mind answering. What caused you to be a “junkie” in the first place? Friends, significant other, depression, etc.?
And congratulations on doing so well for yourself, at such a young age.
well, i was seriously depressed since i was 13, and went untreated untill i was 15, but i was still depressed. the first time i got high was just out of curiosity, but then i realized that it was a handy escape, and started getting high all the time. i was addicted within 2 months. i also have horrible insomnia, so knocking myself unconsciose with dugs was the only way i could sleep
Congrats! Sheesh, that was a nasty combo you were using. But you have now traded it for a more insidious addiction: the SDMB. It won’t kill you and you might find yourself justifying it by talking about how nice the people are, but your real life friends and family will look at you as if you are from Mars when you do.
“You’re only going to meet stalkers and murderers on the internet!”
“Isn’t that dropzone fellow as old as her parents? What’s HE doing talking to her, the pervert?”
“What the hell sort of name is (your name here), anyway?”
It’s too late for me, but you can still quit the SDMB! Save yourself!
Okay, I’m joshin’ ya. I really am pleased that you’ve been clean for a year. That mix is nasty. How are you doing with the insomnia? I found that drugs and liquor, or drugs AND liquor, didn’t help as much as learning how to not care that I wasn’t sleeping. It was the breakthrough I needed and I now sleep like a baby, when I bother logging off of here long enough to sleep.
my insomnia is still pretty bad by normal standards, but i used to only sleep a couple hours every 2 or 3 days. now i sleep an average of 4 or 5 hours a night. having alot of trouble sleeping lately though, having a rough time(detailed in another current mpsims thread of mine). which would explain why i’m on the sdmb at 12:10 when i have school in the morning. oh sweet god of slumber!!! deliver me!!!
i have also found another addiction: rockclimbing with the SO.
the stories i’ve told my mom over the past year of rock-climbing, i swear she wishes i was back on drugs instead!
Well, you still have time. I think the critical point is 20 posts, but starting two threads is NOT a good sign.
Go to sleep.
lol, i actually had a bunch more post(50+) but do to the recent password fiasco, i had to restrat my account becuase i joined after the dropoff point
and i would love to go to sleep, i really would…
Serious question:
How did you do it? Any info you could provide would be so greatly appreciated. My younger sister has been strung out on Oxycotin for about 2 years now (there have been other things, but this is the most recent drug of choice) and I honestly dont see any way out. She has stolen from my parents, her husband, is on probation for stealing a doctors presciption book and forgery, etc.
Non of us really know how to help her because the rest of my family is remarkably free of addictions, normal(relatively), naive, etc. She was diagnosed with a bipolar disorder several years ago.
Seems I heard in some 12-step meeting somewhere that once you lose your humility about your addiction and start calling yourself an ex-addict, you are well on your way to relapse.
Anyways, congratulations on your sobriety, and yes I do need some help thanks. Can I have the phone numbers from your old suppliers? You won’t be needing them anymore, and I’m no quitter.
Congratulations on your year success. The first year was the hardest for me. If you can make it a year, you can pretty much do anything. I got clean when I was 21 and I will be 30 real soon. It was cool to see the younger ones come in and get clean. Damn, I thought I was young getting clean.
Weird though, we don’t call ourselves ex-junkies anymore. We call ourselves recovering addicts. Reason being, once and addict always an addict. I am an addict seeking recovering without the use of drugs.
I am here for ya kid. Isn’t cool how all your relationships that you used to shit on, are now showing up for you. It only gets better from here if you don’t use.
how i would get my drugs: My mom has had several surgeries and never uses u[p the prescription thery give her. also, she was on a prescrip for migranes. so i would just steal from her. and oh yes my parents knew, but they said they didnt believe me. they thought i was trying to get attention by saying i was taking drugs… i never once hid it from them. i even left empty pill bottles on the counter. i was desperatly trying to get them to help me but i was too weak to ask for help. so i would try to get caught
But how did you beat the addiction?
Good on ya. I was addicted to barbituates for a while when I was 16. Haven’t had one since, refused anything stronger than aspirin when I had my wisdom teeth out :o
Being in shape definately helps.
i was admitted to the hospital for a week, where i went thru withdrawel, and then i saw a therapist every other day for 4 months. and all the meds in my house are always kept in a lockbox now
sandalfeet – in case nobody has said it yet…
Welcome!