If you want to live to see another day then you will change your number and let go of the user friends....If you want to die then you keep the number and you continue to get the help you need.......

i can completely relate! espeically with the jealously and all the feelings your talking about.

that was the hardest part for me. getting clean was easy for me but it was getting out of the lifestyle that was hard. i basically told my friends i didn't want to be with them when they were using or if they were going to be using and that got rid of a lot of friends considering most of em use all the time. if that doesn't work though you may just have to confront them you know? they may not completely understand right now, but there may be a point where they will. you have to be selfish with your recovery right now. i cut off some of my friends completely and told them straight up i couldnt be friends with them anymore because it was too much of a temptation to go back to old behavior that i didn't know how to handle.

once you start hanging out with more people in recovery youll be sooo much happier! and youll feel so much more free and spiritual.

Yea, I stayed away for a while. I worked the steps. Then I called and told them I was sober. We decided to go golfing. I thought they'd respect me and what I'm trying to do for myself. They were doing lines at the golf course and gagging. I then realized that they care more about dope than me. I felt a little sad but happy I didn't use. I haven't talked to them since. I have an emotional connection to people I used to use with. I have to stay away from them unless their clean. They're not, so I'll probally never see them again. Of course I love them, but I love myself more. That's why I stay away.

Thats probably one of the hardest parts about getting clean. Me and my friends went through alot together, fun, love and death. I pretty much view them as not only friends but brothers. When we get together though whether we want to or not drug talk starts and the next thing you know we are all very close to using if we dont use. Man I love those guys, and well always be connected, but We all know its best if we limit our time together. Really its about growing up and being responsible. The other night a friend of mine came over for the steeler game. We got shit faced drunk and stopped at that. You have to know where to draw the line, and that will come with many hard lessons learned. For me it was jail, jail, jail, jail, jail, jail... Catch my drift. Im better than that and dont want to go there anymore so I must think about that before I make a stupid decision.

Scott you answered your own ? I no it sucks but you no what happens if we hang in the barber shop we get a hair cut, you no what to do do it if you want to stay SOBA. We can't hang or be in any kind of contact with ppt's that are not doing the right thing. Hang in there 1 day at a time. SOBAS BETTA

Scott you answered your own ? I no it sucks but you no what happens if we hang in the barber shop we get a hair cut, you no what to do do it if you want to stay SOBA. We can't hang or be in any kind of contact with ppt's that are not doing the right thing. Hang in there 1 day at a time. SOBAS BETTA

it sucs feeling helpless cause you can't get them soba u can only hope that they join u in sobriety.you need to keep yourself safe and put yourself first in order to stay soba.people on drugs drain all our energy by a bunch of caaus and drama they often are very needy and want want want .we need to draw the line to keep our selves safe you sanity depends on it.

I had to leave my old friends behind, it was at the end of the day, them and the drugs or my family and a enjoyble life, it was hard, I had a friend for 15yrs we had been through so much together,and it was hard breaking away, I see them now and the best thing I did was get away, it makes me sad when I see them but I have to look after my self and my son, you do have to breakaway though, but I totally understand what you said. It is hard but you have to do it, you will make new friends.