Alcohol and Drug Addiction -- My Case Is Different
"The police raided my house looking for prescription drugs. My husband and two little children were home. I was so embarrassed I couldn't even look at them.  They arrested me, put me in handcuffs and locked me up. My husband divorced me. My children were taken away from me. I knew I had hit bottom."
Who do you think the person telling that story is? A career criminal, a strung out junkie? Neither. That's a 44 year old radiologist and former PTA President.
How about these?
"Meth made me believe I needed nothing else .. .I left my son to get high, and cook dope."
"My son had always been a sensitive, joyful child, but on drugs he was unrecognizable"
"I went from a guy with $15,000, high hopes and plans to homeless, penniless, sick and begging for money"
"From my skewed perspective, it seemed that for a long time, my children's lives were unaffected by my drinking. After all, they went to bed by 7:30 p.m., and I didn't pour my first cocktail until 7 p.m."
Each and every one of these people and many more have stories to tell. And each and every one of them believes their story is different. A person's attempt to think their case is different is usually based on an individual who has not surrendered to the fact that they have a disease over which they are powerless. Drugs are chemicals have a profound impact on the neurochemical balance in the brain which affects how you feel and act. People who suffer emotionally use drugs, to escape from their problems by attempting to self-medicate themselves (problems like, loneliness, low self-esteem, bad relationships, stress, and money problems). Too often, this is what leads to drug abuse or alcohol addiction.
Granted there a plenty of issues that affect human life that you are not powerless over including: healthy living, relationships, careers and financial and legal problems. Outside of having a terminal illness without a cure, most of the aforementioned issues present an option for you to make a change.
The alcoholic or drug addict has no such luck. In many cases they are powerless.
The Steps to Power
.jpg) In no way shape or form does the 12 step program have a monopoly on alcohol recovery or drug addiction. In fact there are many methods available. But ask yourself this -- how many other programs have been proven as successful and work to help men and women stay clean and sober? People who inhabit the rooms of 12 step recovery programs are men and women from all walks of life; every race; every financial and education range; as well as every religious background. That's the thing people fail to understand when it comes to alcohol and drug addiction. It does not discriminate. No matter how you become addicted or what your story is, in the end you face the same problem every addict must face -- How can I recover from this?
12 step programs do make a difference and Mark Houston Recovery can help you through every step from start to finish and beyond. Dismiss it as you might, if you can't understand how or why 12 step programs work then perhaps now is the time to see if it will work for you or your loved one. When it's all said and done, maybe your case is not so different after all. What will be different is the life you have after you have succeeded at the recovery process. Mark Houston Recovery is committed to that success -- one step at a time.
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