I'm a non user. I'll tell you why.
My brother sits in a commission house in the middle of nowhere daily. He has no food in the house, he lays on his couch, does every drug known to man, with his gf. Never been there for his daughter.
That's his day. Can't afford to go anywhere, can't afford the bus.
I'm in love with an addict. I worry about him every single day. I worry about his daughter. I cry all the time because he can't get rid of a lifestyle that makes him feel shit about himself every day.
He is the living dead. And there's nothing I can do about it.
How dare you say the above is a "lifestyle". How dare you bullshit about how you have a handle on it. Most of you do not. It controls you and that is very sad.
I realise I'm addressing the addicts here, and not the people. When you go cold turkey for a few days, come back and read the stuff posted on this forum. It's very disturbing.
I'm not churchy, judgemental or perfect. But I am of sound mind and I can tell you all now that the addict inside you is destroying your authentic self, the real you with goals, dreams, family. The you who is good and considerate and kind and intelligent.
If I feel devastated by seeing it happen to my man, imagine how the authentic you is feeling.
I pray that everyone here with a serious problem gets the support and treatment they truly deserve.