Addiction is a killer...
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Addiction is a killer...
Hello,
Some of you may remember me, I got sober while becoming a member here...I was active here for a long time and then my computer crashed..I was inactive for a year and a half....I recently was in the position to buy another computer so, I would like to update all of you who remember me and those new in recovery...
I have been sober since November 2008...My sobriety is amazing because I have faced lifes most painful challenge, the death of a loved one.
Back in July I received a call from my sister who lives out of state...I was in an immediate state of shock...Our brother was dead...He was just forty four, back from iraq one year....He survived the horrors of war, only to come home to die? it couldn't be, but it was true...
The tragedy of this is his death didn't have to be....Why? He couldn't fight anymore, he couldn't fight the demons that kept him held in addiction...I remember thinking over the past year, he was going to kill himself...It's true, my brother died of an overdose...Oxycontin was his drug of choice...
It still seems so unreal today...the holidays are coming and there is an emptyness that I can't explain...
With this tragedy comes a miracle...I stayed sober through it all...This strength did not come from me, I can only speculate it came from a higher power...I know that if I lived through that sober that I never have to drink again...
So, those of you that are new, please save yourself from a killer, addiction...There is no greater pain than to lose someone from addiction...
Some of you may remember me, I got sober while becoming a member here...I was active here for a long time and then my computer crashed..I was inactive for a year and a half....I recently was in the position to buy another computer so, I would like to update all of you who remember me and those new in recovery...
I have been sober since November 2008...My sobriety is amazing because I have faced lifes most painful challenge, the death of a loved one.
Back in July I received a call from my sister who lives out of state...I was in an immediate state of shock...Our brother was dead...He was just forty four, back from iraq one year....He survived the horrors of war, only to come home to die? it couldn't be, but it was true...
The tragedy of this is his death didn't have to be....Why? He couldn't fight anymore, he couldn't fight the demons that kept him held in addiction...I remember thinking over the past year, he was going to kill himself...It's true, my brother died of an overdose...Oxycontin was his drug of choice...
It still seems so unreal today...the holidays are coming and there is an emptyness that I can't explain...
With this tragedy comes a miracle...I stayed sober through it all...This strength did not come from me, I can only speculate it came from a higher power...I know that if I lived through that sober that I never have to drink again...
So, those of you that are new, please save yourself from a killer, addiction...There is no greater pain than to lose someone from addiction...
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Originally Posted by Missymae737 
So, those of you that are new, please save yourself from a killer, addiction...There is no greater pain than to lose someone from addiction...
Exactly four years ago my oldest and dearest friend, an alcoholic, died. Suicide. But alcohol killed him as surely as if it had pulled the trigger.
Blessed to be sober, today.
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