I Think I Developed a Cocaine Addiction. Help!?
Question by Bonny: I think I developed a cocaine addiction. Help!?
I’m 30 years old, married and my husband and I started using cocaine a couple years ago. At that time, we tried it with then acquantiances but, after a couple times, we stopped and didn’t have the desire to continue. Within the last two months, however, we have used cocaine several times a week and i’m scared that we have become addicted to it. Every time we make a pact to not do it anymore, when the weekend comes, someone will hint to it and the other will support us getting more. I’m really scared. I don’t want to ruin my life and I see that it’s not as easy as we thought to stop “cold turkey” because we rationalize the weekend use as just “having a good time on the weekend.”
I told my husband I was going to a NA meeting this evening because I think we need help. At this time, he doesn’t have the desire to go.
Any advice? Thank you.
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Answer by Christen T
You have to tell him to think about your future. Do you have any children? You can’t risk the chance of destroying your lives. You’ll be suprised how quickly cocaine can grab hold of your life. I’m so glad you want to stop this. It sounds to me like you are addicted. Please stop! You are going to find yourselves spending all your money on it and it will completely controll your life. I’ll pray for you two. I don’t want to get all religious on you but God is the only way to get through this and truly be happy. I know how hard that addiction is. Please talk to your husband.. This is your life. Don’t let something as ridicious as cocaine controll you. If your friends don’t understand now, they will later b/c they will see what they have become and then look at you and see how strong and responsible you two are for stopping this. Please stop. You don’t deserve this.
Answer by Noone i
Good for you for wanting to stop. thats the first step.
First of all, cocaine is absolutely psychologically and physically addicting. I have been there and I had it bad, so I can relate.
You are watching the slow motion movie of your life unraveling, and the only way to change the upcoming scenes is to make sure you take charge of them now.
You do that by getting help, changing your friends, acknowledging your addiction and facing it with counseling, therapy and maintaining a clean and sober lifestyle. Let me make this VERY clear: you will NOT be able to maintain the same friends that you have now…and possibly never will be able to be around them again. They are enabling you to stay coked up and want you to … it helps them justify their use if you do it too.
ADDED, afterthought: Danielle? Make sure that if you quit and start feeling depressed, that you seek MEDICAL help and/or counseling, it is absolutely important that you do. Cocaine addictions use a part of your brain called neurotransmitters and neurons to create the high. Those same neuro’s are used NORMALLY, without drugs, to help stabilize and experience emotions. Cocaine depletes those from the brain to make the high, and as a result, its why you need more and more coke to get high, there are less and less neurotransmitters to create it.
Quitting CAN lead to emotional unstability, and its VERY important that you DO NOT RATIONALIZE getting high when this happens, but rather to seek medical attn immediately. You cannot justify using other drugs either, only medical treatments. No pot, coke, or street drugs allowed. Period. Only medications that are prescribed. ok?
You will need to go to your meetings and appts religiously, and face the fact in your mind that you either are an addict or are becoming one, and that you are taking control of your life, NOW.
The next step is getting help for your husband, because he will continue to use and it will either drag you back into it or destroy your relationship when you quit and he continues.
First things first. GET HELP NOW, then get him help.
IF you need more info, or input, or suggestions, ask here and we will ALL gladly offer our help as best we can…but first and foremost, admit you have a problem and face it on a local homefront. Tell a mom, friend, dad…brother, sister, cousin, and ask them for help. Non illegal drug help.
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