Aug
29-07

Getting it right in Los Angeles

Posted in Alcohol Rehab, Alcohol Treatment, Alcohol Treatment Center

How badly did I need alcohol treatment? Let’s just say I was a pathetic excuse for a human being, when I was an alcoholic, the sort of miserable drunken wretch who can’t think past his next drink. I was a disaster, simply stated, and to be perfectly honest I didn’t think private alcohol treatment in California would ever work for me. I figured I was too far gone for saving, too mired in the depths of need and addiction to every find my way back to the light.

The good news? I was wrong. And I’ve never been so happy to be off-base in my entire life.

The time I spent in a Los Angeles alcohol treatment center changed my life, and helped me rediscover the world as I’d used to know it. Alcoholism is an awful disease, you shouldn’t need me to tell you that. Alcohol treatment in an exclusive alcohol treatment center can help you get over it, so long as you’ve got the guts to give it a shot. Let me put it this way: If alcohol rehabilitation worked for me, it can work for you to. Don’t wait any longer to find that out for yourself.




Aug
22-07

You want proof that drug treatment works?

Posted in Addiction, Drug Treatment, Drug Treatment Center, Drug Treatment Centers

I am living proof that drug treatment centers actually work. My drug addiction could have KO’d me a long time ago, but my time in drug treatment made that impossible. I was really bad off and I felt like I was really going to die from what was ailing me. I was addicted to crack and getting off of that stuff by yourself is virtually impossible. Trust me I tried. The harsh reality, however, was that there are some things that people can’t do all by themselves. That’s especially true when it comes to kicking a humongous crack addiction. That’s why drug treatment centers are so awesome. When I finally made it to drug rehab I was relieved that I was still alive and that I wasn’t going to lose my life to crack after all. The help that drug treatment centers give to people like me who suffer from drug addiction is phenomenally important. There are multitudes of folks who are in recovery that owe everything to drug treatment centers. If it weren’t for the help of drug treatment centers there is no telling where any of us would be. Some of us would be dead or we would be the walking dead. Either way, life would be different without the help given to us by drug treatment centers.




Aug
07-07

All I thought of was gambling chips, doubling down, the tables…

Posted in Gambling Addiction, Treatment

Spin the wheel, double down, let it ride…being able to say cool stuff like that didn’t exactly help me to not love gambling as much as did. I know it was wrong having a gambling addiction but there were some fun aspects of having one. Okay, maybe there weren’t that many fun things about having one. I hated that I got instant gratification from winning in any game that I could gamble. Hell, I even got excited when I would lose. When I lost I got excited about having another chance to win again. I knew I had a problem but I just couldn’t stop. The rush was insane and it only got worse and needed to be fed more frequently as time went on. I thought about getting help a million times but it was never the gamble that I was ready to take. It wasn’t until I started losing my entire paychecks that I woke up and decided to get treatment. My gambling addiction could have ruined my life, but the treatment i received kept me from destroying what left of it. These days I occasionally get the urge to roll the dice or deal the cards, but I finally realized that my life should never have been a gambling chip.