best way to get clean?, with no insurance , and limited options (please read)

miafan16

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Ok I will try to summarize this up as much as possible, a little about e, I am 25 years old and have been shooting up since i was 19 , ..when i was 21 i went to prison for 2 years because i was stealing stuff to support a coke/morphine habit, it took a year in prison before i didn't wake up and the first thing i thought about was drugs , i then got out and within the first 3 days i went back to shooting up and have been doing it at least 3-4 times a day since, and i been out 2 years ,

I am at the point where i have no veins left, and i have to always wear long sleeve shirts to cover up my track marks, ( even in the summer) , I try to keep it low key and only a hand full of people know ..the only positive thing I can say about myself is i have had a job over a year, am on no type of state assistance , and paying all my bills on my own, well last night i got a few addy 30's and after work last night ( i work the night shift) i got home and instantly started getting ready to do the addies, well it took me almost 3 hours to finally hit myself and get it, with a lot of missed attempts , small misses , and messed up veins,

..I am so disgusted with myself, and i have felt this way before when i do uppers, which isn't often maybe once or twice every few months, I wanna get clean, but i have no health Insurance to do so, which leaves me with not many options, also live in a small town about at least an hour from any big city that would have treatment

..I can't go into an inpatient program because i have work, and can't afford to loose my job, ( which i worry almost every day that i will get fired, cause i work with the public, so i deal with a lot of people and my hands look pretty bad as well..

I am so sick and tired of wasting money, and hurting myself, for what seems like a pointless habit , since i rarely feel anything anymore, and have even got to the point of shooting suboxone, which make me feel like a real piece of shit, to be abusing something that is suppose to help you get clean,

I really don't know what to do, and talking to a counselor or anyone isn't gonna help, I really don't even think it's the drugs so much, as the ritual of shooting up..

like i said i have no insurance , in kinda a remote area , and have a job that i can't afford to loose by going into a rehab or IOP , if i could even get into one for free , which i doubt, cold turkey isn't gonna work either..I have tried that and made it like 24 hours ,

I just don't know what to do, I don't wanna loose a limb or die over this, and i sure as hell don't want to loose my job , cause my work finds out, summer is comming up, and I have a new manger who is strict and idk how i would explain why i am wearing a long sleeve shirt in july , does anyone have any idea r possibly some programs maybe not a lot of people know about?, or even home remedies that maybe worked for them...I can't keep going like this..,

I have a hard time looking at myself in the mirror some days , and am always paronoid If someone looks at my hands , I don't wanna live like this , and I'm just lost..I have come along way in the last 2 years , with getting a job which i never had, doing everything on my own with no state assistance , not stealings anymore, and am pretty much a good law abiding citazen with the exception of this..I am afraid to try and go out and try to get in a relationship, because i feel like if i ever have anyone interested, once they found out what i did, they would leave ,

It just sucks, it really sucks , this life Isn't for anyone, and I honestly wish if i could wave a wand and be able to stay clean I would, I'm also on probation , because of the thefts that got me sent to prison, so if my P.o found out, i could easily go back, so this whole addiction thing, just causes way to much stress for me , than what i get out of it....any help would be greatly apprieated , thank you for anyone who took the time to read this, and thank you to anyone who responds, I am just so fed up with myself, and mad at myself that i don't have the self control or strenth , or strong mind to quit cold turkey and do this on my own
 
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Hey miafan, welcome to BL:D'

Sorry you are going through this! Don't beat yourself up.. you have went through so much and are facing so much. Give yourself a break already<3?

I really don't even think it's the drugs so much, as the ritual of shooting up..

Addictions so related to dopamine. This is where the ritual compulsion comes from. Check out this thread and the piece about the monkey and dopamine. In the beginning we get the dopamine from the drug, but it shifts back.

The Brain and Addiction




Without any judgment you may want to consider rereading your post. How many excuses does it contain to justy not healing yourself?

You can figure this out.. if I did anyone can;)
 
The best way is the one that works for you. There are lots of simple ways but no easy ways.

What is it that drives you to use? How do you then change that thing that is driving you to use?
 
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