I'm scared
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Chicago, IL
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I'm scared
I'm scared to stop using drugs because all my friends use. I don't want to be alone. I don't know who to talk to in my area because I don't know people who don't use. My parents don't know the extent of my problem, and I don't want them to. I need even one friend who is a non-user. I don't think I can do it by myself.
Coming out of my shell
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: State of Denial
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Eleanor, I will be your friend 
, as will many people here at SR so you aren't alone. Look up NA in the phone book and call someone who can help you locally. Hang in there, you can do this one day at a time.
Kathy
, as will many people here at SR so you aren't alone. Look up NA in the phone book and call someone who can help you locally. Hang in there, you can do this one day at a time. Kathy
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 18
Thank you. I much appreciate it. I want to make a lot of friends on soberrecovery. But I also want to find people in my area (and not ust drug counselors...but kids around my age - I'm 18) that don't use because I know just being around a group of people I like who don't use will be helpful. It just seems so hard to find non-user friends who don't judge for the fact that I do use and will stick by someone like me who is trying to stop. And I still love my friends that I have now. They use but they are good people with big hearts. I don't want to loose them, but I don't know if that's possible...
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: El Paso, Tx
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Not sure if you've checked it out yet but you may want to look into Narcotics Anonymous. They have tons of meetings in the Chicago area and all kinds to! Some with older crowsds younger crowds, just a huge variety, but that takes some time getting to know which meetings would be most comfortable for you. My brother lives there and it took him several months to find the right one... but he didn't give up looking as he to was told, he could find the right one for him. So get yourself busy, do some volunteer work and you'll make those sober friends.. have no fear they do exist.
Coming out of my shell
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: State of Denial
Posts: 100
You said in another post you're a university student. I know not everyone uses at school so you have opportunites every day to meet someone who's clean. Maybe you can get a part time job just to meet other people. If you're wanting to quit, it's probably not good to be around your friends that use - unless you've told them you want to quit and they're behind your recovery 100%. Even if they have good hearts, your sobriety is the most important thing right now.
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: New Focus
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Hi ER, Welcome to SR.
Good for you for looking for an alternative to a miserable life!!
Maybe call the NA or AA hotline in your area, they might be albe to
tell you which meetings might suit you best!
Glad your here,
Take Care
Good for you for looking for an alternative to a miserable life!!
Maybe call the NA or AA hotline in your area, they might be albe to
tell you which meetings might suit you best!
Glad your here,
Take Care
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private message. in the upper right hand corner, under your user name, click on private messages.
you will need to put her user name in, then write a message which is not seen by anyone else. if you would like any help, let me know.
you will need to put her user name in, then write a message which is not seen by anyone else. if you would like any help, let me know.
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