Happy New Year

Happy New Year Everyone!

I still have my Christmas Tree up...I'm leaving it up until Saturday. Is that wrong? My grandmother always said it was a sin to leave your tree up. What? No, really she said, "If you don't take your tree down before New Years Day the devil will knock it down." I think it was just an excuse to take it down because as a child I never wanted to take the tree down. I love the lights. I love looking at the lights. I put on as many lights as possible. It's very twinkly.

Heroin Kills Slowly

My 21-year old niece buys clothes designed by an American tattoo artist named Ed Hardy. She was wearing a hoodie with a Ed Hardy Design Christmas Eve. The design included a skull with a ribbon that says "LOVE KILLS SLOWLY" [shown]. I thought it was cute...so I drew a heart with a ribbon and a sword...my design says "HEROIN KILLS SLOWLY." Thought it was pretty cute too so I put it on Cafe Press. Check it out and let me know what you think. 

http://www.cafepress.com/MDAddiction

Not Afraid of Tomorrow

What a wonderful holiday. My daughter was really happy. The laughter and giggling between her and her younger sister brought back so many precious memories. Her younger sister has always worshipped the ground she walked on. Unfortunately, on occasion, she was on the receiving end of her sisters vicious attacks. It just broke her heart [and mine]. It actually got so bad that I didn't leave them alone together. Once we knew about her heroin addiction, I talked to her younger sister about her sister's counseling and that she would be taking medicine that would make her better. Almost immediately she started staying away from her sister. I don't know if she was afraid of her sister or if she'd just had enough of her abuse. 

Anyway, that was then ...and now we're happy that our addicted daughter is in recovery and is truly happy again and that our younger daughter has a great relationship with her sister. Our home is a happy home again...

I don't think we would be where we are today without seboxone. Seboxone gave her a chance to live again, to live happy...and to live free from heroin. Seboxone gave us a chance to breathe again. I'm breathing...I'm happy and for the first time in a year I'm not afraid of tomorrow.

Fight Drug Dealers with your Cell Phone

Cell phone users can now fight drug dealers with a simple text message and remain completely anonymous. 

How it works:

1. In your message you need the word Tip and a 3 digit number for your local agency.

Agency numbers can be found at www.smscrimetips.com For instance if you live in Los Angeles your agency number is 365 so your message would begin with Tip365. 

2. Your message may look something like this: 

Tip365John Doe is selling drugs on the TJR campus behind the gym.

3. Text your message To: Crimes or 274637

 
4. Press Send

5. A few seconds later you'll receive a confirmation message:

Tip received: Your code is R719. Please reply with additional info any time. 

Delete your tip for safety. Text STOP to opt out.  

6. R719 is your alias code.

Text Tip agency numbers are available at www.smscrimetips.com

We don't have an excuse. Start texting and stop drug dealers. 

Heroin addict? Try seboxone it works

You've been so preoccupied with searching day in and day out for heroin that you forgot that you're family still loves you. Even though they don't trust you or sometimes they may even dislike you...it's not you they dislike...it's your behavoir...you're continuous search for heroin, your fixation on how to buy it, who to buy it from, how to pay for it. We know you can't help it. It's called a disease. It's a brain disease.

There are plenty of people out there that have made it back from heroin addiction, back to a normal life. No lies, no stealing, no more worries about heroin. Heroin is a choice, a bad one but nonetheless your choice. No one made you start using heroin and then continue making you use heroin. You're not special...you will become addicted to heroin if you use it. I hear you saying, "I'm different...I've been through so much in my life it want happen to me". Well, you're not special and if you use heroin you will become addicted to it eventually. If you've ever tried to stop before you know how horrible the withdrawals can be and that fear doesn't help.

My daughter was a heroin addict [a lying, stealing, needle-using, dirty, junkie heroin addict] for about 2 years before I found out about it. She had snorted heroin for a year and then progressed to using needles for a year. She was 17 when I found out about it. I thought the bruises on her arms were from her friends playing around with her [that's what she told me]. I remember searching online for possible reasons for her arms being bruised. I thought she might have some type of disease. I never found anything online that led me to believe that she might be an drug addict. I knew she was a troubled teen and I had been taking her to see a psychiatrist for her anger, mood swings and general depression. Not once did anyone ever say anything to me about the possibility that her severe mood swings, rages, anxiousness and suicidal tendencies had anything to do with drug addiction. Boy, was I surprised. I felt like an idiot.

I immediately took her to her psychiatrist and told him she was a heroin addict. He just looked at her, asked her if she was sick...she said yes. He left the room, and immediately came back with a tiny orange pill. He told her to put it under her tongue and let it dissolve. He wrote her a prescription for seboxone and told us to come back the next week. That was the beginning of a year of ups and downs....Today, a year later she's no longer taking seboxone...she's heroin free and says she'll never go back. Soon, she'll start college. I'm looking forward to what the future holds for her and she is too thanks to seboxone.