Addiction Recovery Stories

• Heroin:
  • Pros:
    • Devil's blood: "Heroin worst shit ever was addicted to it for 7 years heavy."
    • Recovery: "clean 6 months and will never in my life touch that shit ever in my life again."
  • Cons:
    • Withdrawal: "withdrawals are truly hellacious."
• Cocaine:
  • Pros:
    • Difficult: "Cocaine was hard."
• Alcohol:
  • Pros:
    • Challenges: "Booze was harder."
    • Recovery: "I quit cigarettes and haven't smoked one in 2256 days!"
  • Cons:
    • Ongoing Struggle: "Being a high functioning alcoholic is probably something I'll never be able to beat."
• Nicotine:
  • Pros:
    • Hard to Quit: "Nicotine for me, very hard to quit."
• Porn Addiction:
  • Pros:
    • Awareness: "we need to encourage critical thinking both when speaking to others and when looking onto ourselves."
  • Cons:
    • Neglect: "missed several deadlines, flunked an exam and had to repeat two seminars because of this."
• MMORPG Addiction:
  • Cons:
    • Overindulgence: "If you replace "drugs" with "games" this fits my reaction almost entirely."
• Phone/Social Media Addiction:
  • Cons:
    • Effects: "It's amazing how the "weed can't be addictive" crowd ignores that other non-chemical addictions..."
• Caffeine Addiction:
  • Cons:
    • Dependency: "I was so tired without caffeine, the first few days I legitimately thought I was going to just fall asleep and die."
• Food Addiction:
  • Cons:
    • Struggle: "I'm like this with food."
• Online Game Addiction:
  • Cons:
    • Impact: "People get sucked in this [MMORPGs] for hours every day..."