Meth Addiction & Recovery Support Group

Methamphetamine is a synthetic stimulant drug used for both medicinal and recreational purposes. Methamphetamine is highly psychologically addictive. Like most stimulants, large doses of methamphetamine can result in a strong feeling of euphoria at the expense of physical fatigue and a strong "come-down" as the drug's effect wears off.

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ericmk30 09/09/2017

My meth addiction started two years ago after my divorce. From what little information I had on the drug, it would kill me the first time I shot it. I was mistaken. Instead it has caused a downward spiral of my life over the past two years. I am ready to be done. I am alone with only my parents to turn to. If I keep going the end result is death or prison. I want to cry out, "god I want to live again" and snap back into what I knew of life more than two years ago. It worked at the end of, "Its A Womderful Life". This is not a movie, it is reality. The reality is, I've sought the type of treatment I need. It seems that reputable rehabs are only for the rich. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Sagacioussusan 09/21/2017

Yes there is a better and greater life after meth. The bitch is getting through to that point. Go to NAmeetings. There might be someone there who can direct you to a treatment program. I wish you the best of luck.

lisadmartin 03/19/2018

Life will never be as it was but it can be a new more humble life with greater meaning. I know I can't go back to the person I was before dope but I have so much more quality of life in the moments I share or a much deeper self worth in the survivor that I've become after this hell.

SceamingEye 03/20/2018

It's good that you are posting and being honest about how you feel. That is a start and I love ya for posting here. I went through the same thing; after my fiance died in 2010. I started eating speed, and started smoking it around this time last year. I too found myself alone, at my parents house smoking in my bedroom and just found it harder and harder to get that jump start into sobriety. I tried a rehab and left after about 4 days; with a new sense of purpose. I "remembered", who I was and did great for about three months. My mistake was reaching out to old friends, I use the term "friends", lightly here because they were not friends they were people who I could find comfort hanging with if I was using dope. Anyway, I relapsed and it tore my family apart. It ended with my father getting physical with me because he did not know what else to do. I spent three days in observation and its been a hard few months. Out of all these hardships I found out its still better to be poor, bored and sober than to get high.

It doesn't happen overnight but just know that you can get sober, and please don't lose yourself throughout this whole thing. Try not to worry too much about what your life was. You will come up on top. We who are working at getting sober have so much respect for one another. Your post has helped me today.

My only advice and the one thing that helped me was to disconnect. Turn your phone off, disconnect it. Disconnect yourself and find out who your friends are; don't be distracted by what your life was but be motivated by what you can do with it.

sobriety26 03/21/2018

Go to a NA meeting. When you are ready to get clean and sober a place will appear for you to go to it.

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