我去《觉醒》是因为我需要治疗止痛药和舒博酮上瘾的问题。我开始从止痛药中摆脱出来但我一直在用一种或另一种,无法摆脱。当我去看《觉醒》的时候,我得到了我所需要的完全正确的帮助,我能够在结束节目回家后保持清醒。我开始使用它是因为我想尝试一下,想看看它是什么样子的。真是个愚蠢又代价高昂的错误。当我意识到自己开始依赖药物时,我向父母寻求帮助。我不想去戒毒所,因为我害怕去了之后会染上更大的毒瘾什么的。我读过一些发生在人们身上的故事,或者他们去戒毒所戒毒离开后就开始吸食冰毒之类的东西。因为这种恐惧,我和父母决定去看医生,并服用苏博士酮。没有帮助。 It got me off the pills. Only then, I couldn’t get off the Suboxone. I was weaned down on the Suboxone till I was taking only a little bit, then I stop taking it and as soon as the withdrawal started, I’d start looking for something to stop it. Whether that was pills or Suboxone I didn’t care. After a year of that my parents decided I needed rehab. I went though I didn’t completely agree. I knew I needed some help and thought that if I could get everything out of my system, then I wouldn’t needed help staying that way. I did do the program, just not as well as I could have. I wasn’t as sincere as I should’ve been, didn’t try as hard as I could’ve. I made it 3 months after coming home before I relapsed. I went back on Suboxone, back to that cycle until my parents found Awakenings and sent me there. It’s a great place for so many reasons. There 2 that were most important to me though was the program itself and the staff there. The program isn’t just one program that everyone does. They have different options there and I found a program that worked best for me. The staff, as soon as I got there they made sure I felt welcome and that I was comfortable. Through my withdrawal they made sure I was as comfortable as possible and continued to be there through my whole program, helping me whenever I needed it. Because of all that I’ve stayed sober since I finished my program and came home. I feel so much better now. I know what to do and how to handle that comes my way and by using what I learned at Awakenings, I know that no matter what I’ll be able to stay sober.