Nancy's Drug Addiction Story: Finding Hope in Recovery

Hello Everyone,

I would like to share my experience with anyone who believes they are lost in their addiction. Seven years ago, I was methadone, heroin, and cocaine addicted. It took 19 years for my addiction to progress. As, my father was my enabler, and until his death, I never felt the sting of progressive addiction.

I started smoking weed at around 13, and went from weed to Cough Syrup and Doridans. The combination of these to narcotics provided me with my eventual drug of choice. I started snorting around 18 and continued until I was 40 years. I never went beyond snorting (even though that did not make me any less addicted). The bi-products of my addiction eventually forced me to lose my job, apartment, and hope for life.

Once I lost my apartment, I went to a Christian Shelter where I found Christ. And, when I made up my mind to be willing to give up my destructive friend (heroin), and create a new path in life. I stayed at the shelter for 3 months, and left with $500.00, and moved into a halfway house. This place required me to pay rent. I scrubbed floors in the morning, and went to college at night. I finished my undergraduate degree 2006, and am now working on a graduate degree.

Once I found Christ, I realized it was something inside me that made me harm myself. I also recognized that I needed to clean up the wreckage of my past in order to move forward in my life. Thus, I started to do some soul searching, and continue to do so everyday of my life. I will not tell you that it was easy, but the reward of the relentless pursuit for a better me is well worth it. And, I pray that someone out there will read this message and be encouraged.