I am the mother of a 27 year old with problems. I wept when I read your site. It was like somebody was giving me permission not to feel responsible for everything. I am going to give him this web site address in the hope that he will read it - thank you.
hi!
I am a staff nurse working on a ward that has a lot of patients admitted with drug overdose - accidental and intentional - and a LOT of alcholics who've suffered withdrawl fits. We then give them a 'mini' detox to enable them to be safer out in the community.
However I am acutely aware of the lack of immediate help to continue this support but your site has helped me enormously to hopefully enable them to help themselves.
I am also the mother of a 13 year old son. if he ever needs answers, I can now let him know of this brilliant, truthful, non patronising web page. (because mothers don't know anything of course !!)
Thanks again.
I want to thank you for this website. I have been agonizing over this addiction for quite a while now. You made me cry in a good way and to look at myself in a different light. I am going to get help as soon as I finish writing this.
I AM VERY SCARED ABOUT DOING THIS BUT I WILL DO IT NOW.
Thank you for a wonderful and helpful website. I have a very close friend who is on heroin and your advice for me as well as my friend has given me real positive hope and motivation to carry on supporting my friend and to understand that I can only do my best, my life must go on - hopefully with my dear friend for many, many years to come.
A big thank you
Totally moving, never read such a appropriate way to approach such a hard subject
hello! my names ********** and i have just been looking (and reading!) your pages on 'living drug-free' and i think they are really helpful.
i am recovering from alcoholism and have managed to stay away from it for 2 years now. AA meetings were my first introduction to recovery, before then i had no idea that other people were as mixed up as me! it was a relief to know this isn't true!
i especially liked your advice on dealing with feelings. i found it simple and easy to follow and understand which is a real refreshment for me. sometimes in AA i get confused and overwhelmed with all the information, and spend too much time wondering whether i'm doing the 'steps' right and thinking i'm somehow a defective person because of all the character defect stuff!
I still go to AA meetings because i need reminding that it's not just me who is finding it hard to learn how to like myself and be honest! i like your information about 'rights' too- i can think that i shouldn't expect much from other people and don't believe that i'm worthy of my own thoughts, feelings, standards, or values! thanks for giving me a reminder that its not my fault that i abused alcohol!
i wish your website every success, you're doing a really great service
This is a brilliant website - I have found information here that I couldn't find elsewhere especially books to read and links to family support groups.
Thank you so much for doing a great job - it is good to know that i'm not alone....
This is a brilliant WEBSITE for those who need information. Your website has given me some great tips to help me to help my daughter to battle against drugs.
Thanks.
Thanks a million, your website reinforced what l should have done a long time ago.
My daughter, who is 18, has been an Heroin Addict for 5 years. She has repeatedly tried to come off heroin for the last 12 months. I gave her my support as much as I could, but I found that every time we would get close to succeeding she would sink back down to a lower level than before. This as you can imagine, really hurt, not just me, but my daughter
also felt she had let herself down. I did not know where to turn, the pain that heroin can cause is so widespread you really can not describe it in words.
It hurts to much to go in to lots of details, let's just say my sanity was in question at one point, not to mention my daughters. I could not understand WHY she would do this to herself or WHY she could do it to her family. I felt that this was all my fault and believed it to be my problem too. I felt l had done something wrong in her life, perhaps giving-in too quickly to her, not standing my ground with her, giving her everything she
ask for, or just simply loving her to much. I thought it was my fault she had turned to heroin and was slowly killing herself. The arguments and fights we had just reinforced what I was feeling and she would also say it was my fault.
This had to stop!!
I turned to the internet to see if I could find any help, a life support for ME.
I found your website and it has changed my outlook and feelings completly around and because I did this, even though it was extremely hard, I am now giving the right kind of support to my daughter, with her blessings, as we now both know she is the one with
the addiction and it is her problem.
She is on a programme at present which was her choice and her doing, she is doing extremely well and I am so proud of her and guess what? I actually feel human again and I am enjoying my life and getting to know my daughter all over again.
Thank you... You have changed my life for the better and my daughters life now has a chance too.
I am not a drug user or alcoholic, im just curious to know the effects and symptoms of drug abuse, yet i find your site very informative and easy to understand.
more power
I am a recovering addict going on 3 years and i like what i read on this web page!
hi!
I'm doing a project on alcohol abuse in school and not only for myself but for all those in my school to be more aware of the addiction of alcohol. I also have an uncle who is an alcoholic and I now know that he is not alone and that there are many people there to help him!
I thank you for all the effort you put into this website in order to help others. you gave me great advice and interesting facts I can include in my project!
THANKS!!!!!
Thank you for your well designed, caring, informative site . . . I have known a heroin addict for nearly four years now and I’ve been through everything. I’ve been robbed, lied to, even had to face up to the fact that she turned to prostitution to fund her habit! Prostitution and heroin addiction are very good friends! But the hurtful side is that I love her and I’m finding it extremely difficult to cope with it all.
I found your web purely by chance and I wish I’d known of it’s existence a long time ago. But I suppose the help and advise that you give is obvious to us all but when you're in there all common sense goes out of the window and it’s so nice to share these problems with others who are there as well. When I read your visitors letters I must admit to shedding tears reading them. So many of them are from people just like me. Desperate for proper advice!
This is one of the best websites I've ever been to. I like the way you guys arrange your information. You make it so easy for me to find what I need to know without reading through long descriptions.
Thank you very much for the help.
I think this is a really good website, full of information to educate us all. I really like the teen approach, it is very effective and I can imagine some positive outcomes from it.
I am a drama teacher and am planning a scheme on drugs. The information and approach has enlightened me.
I am 17 yrs of age. I dont take drugs nor ever intend too, I am tho' interested in drugs and its effects on society and the family life.
I found your site very informative and not pushy. The presentation is excellent and it reaches out to kids my age.
I wish you every success with your campaign and oganisation.
I really like your web site. My dad is an alcoholic and it is good to know that people are there to help and give info to people like me.
Thanks
Thanks for being here. I just felt so alone. Somebody I love very much is a long term abuser of smack. He is going to prison tomorrow because of the shit that he gets into to fund his habit. I want to help him so much but I didn't know how. Now I have got the information and advice from you to go forward with this and to help him get his life back!
Hi, I've been a binge drinker for 20 years. I'm trying to stop. I'm seeing an NHS Psychiatric Nurse. I think this is an excellent web-site and I will be visiting again. Also I'm going to download the section in the Download Centre. Well done and Thanks,
Hi
I am currently helping my best friend with speed withdrawls , its the hardest thing to do !!
5 years ago I lost my cousin to an overdose and this just brings back bad memories. But I will ask God for the strength to continue to save her life!
Your website has helped me deal with my feelings and told me its ok for me to have a life beyond all of this.
To anyone thinking of using or to anyone who is using think about the effects it has on your friends and families lives before you stick the needle in !!
This site is excellent . . . It gave me the answers I was searching for. I think this is one of the best informational sites I have ever visited.
Thank you so much.
Having read your comments on how to cope with being a victim of alcohol abuse it has given me a much needed boost. I now feel I can cope much better. I will contact a local support group shortly. keep up the good work. "Its nice to know someone understands"
Thank God I found you. You've helped me more than you can ever know. You're the first step on a long path
In awe, I say thank you to the site administrator!
I personally have never used drugs but have been associated with those that have. Recently I have come to discover that my best friend, an Uncle-in-law has recently admitted to me of his problem after my approach to him about his problem. I have offered my help and advise to my best friend but I know and understand that he is the one that needs to make the change for himself.
I wanted to take the time to tell you "Thank You" so much for your website and that it is has been a help. I will definitely pass the word to other friends that are in need of help whether it be using or trying to help a friend or loved one.
Again, thank you!
Your web site deserves an award. In our area alcohol abuse is a major problem with teenagers.
Hi!
My name's ****** and I thought your website was really good. I really liked the way our name gets incorporated into the sites - it made me feel that little bit more wanted. I could tell that you guys went to a lot of trouble putting together this site and it is so muchly appreciated.
Thank you guys soooooooo much :-)
Excellent - the best web-site on drugs I have found so far. As a mother of a teenager I found your advice so helpful. I only wish he would visit your site too.
I was really impressed with your web site. I am a student midwife preparing a presentation for University on the care of the pregnant drug abuser. I realised how little I knew about current street drugs and I found your information to be pitched at just the right level for me. It gave a balanced approach and more social information than the BNF, my other primary source!
As a mother of teenage children, it was a relief to find I could educate myself about drug use. I shall certainly encourage my daughters to use your web site. Well done!
I want to thank you for your web site. I have abused drugs and alcohol for over 30 years. A year and a half ago, I quit. I met a lady, and gave her all the credit for my not abusing drugs and alchol. We broke up four months ago, the first thing I did was score some drugs. We are talking about getting back together now. I decided to quit again, and I started looking at the reasons why I could quit when I'm with her. I thought I came up with something so new, I was stoked, I always gave her the credit of getting me off drugs. I finally figured out that I did drugs to hide pain, and when I am with her I want to feel all the feelings, that are within me. I never knew that before. I just figured that I loved her so much, that she was the reason. I happened on to your website the first paragraph, and I knew that I had not come up with anything new. I've read every page, and thank you very much for your words. I have printed them and will pass them on to a friend of mine. or two.
thank you again
Danfonwch eich sylwadau aton ni! Ry'n ni angen eich adborth.