10 years! I have not done any illegal / illicit drugs for 10 years now.
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I don't go to N.A. meetings, but I just felt like announcing it here!
I had a slight problem with cocaine... regardless of how comparatively big or small my cocaine use was, it was too big of a problem for me for me to cope with, and I knew it was unhealthy. I had experimented with LSD a few times, and smoked marijuana socially, but I had no desire at all to abuse those substances. Cocaine was only drug that was irresistible.
10 years ago to this day, a person very, very close to me died of an accidental drug overdose. He was a young man, extremely popular, who had a good job, a wife, everything going for him. It broke my heart.
Everyone grieved, but yet even so, a couple of his dear friends did drugs at his funeral. It was disgusting. I was quietly offended, and I knew I wanted no part of it anymore!
I didn't lose any friends, but people stopped calling me. They still liked me, but they didn't seek out my company anymore. So yes, I lost friends.
But it was worth it! I'm not an "easily addicted person" so after that event it wasn't hard for me to resist cocaine, either. And for that I am very thankful.
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It hurts really badly to lose a young person to drugs. 
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But as your post so eloquently states - these deaths are lessons for the rest of us.
Congratulations and Merry Christmas. 
combining cocaine and heroin. He was all alone, sadly, so there was no one there to call for an ambulance.
Merry Christmas to you too! 
We are all in this, together.
PB
I would love it if I inspired others! I really would.
Friends of mine have died from heroin. Only a couple have been close friends, but those deaths hit hard! A punch in the gut.
Happy Holidays!
You really can.
One of my closest friends OD'd when we were thirty. He was one of the best of us, but his addiction was too strong. I still miss him every day.
So glad you were able to put it aside.
We lose so many talented people to drugs. Okay, so it's mostly to heroin... heroin combined with cocaine and alcohol is deadly, as was in my dearest person's case.
I am so sorry about your friend OD' ing. It really hurts!
Thank you for your support!
Something I am extremely thankful for.
Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you, too!
I know egg-ZACK-lee how hard that is.
Good job!
"There's no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out." - Sam Kinison
RL
you did it!
10 years is huge!! I too am very thankful for you
of happiness for you and sadness that my best friend "went out" and used, killing her.
This will be the 7th Christmas without her -- she loved Christmas. I was the one who got her into NA -- she came to me when she hit bottom. I bought her a train ticket when she called, needing her best friend (we lived in different states), and she came to me, staying with me for a while and going with me to her first NA meeting after I tracked down a local one. I've never been a substance abuser -- I was a mental health professional and could empathize, help her in all kinds of ways, but I didn't have that substance abuse shared-history and different kind of support that NA subsequently gave her. We hit the best possible meeting for her -- it struck her just in the right place, and she went home and became very involved in her local NA group.
Sadly, it just took that one time (that we know of). It turned out that her heart was severely damaged from years of substance abuse and gave out after that one last time.
Your 10 years are certainly worth celebrating & sharing! Congratulations to you -- staying with substance abuse is a deadly path....literally.
on ten years. Indeed, a major milestone.
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As someone who is soon to celebrate 30 years of sobriety, I can with full confidence say:
YOU ROCK!