No More Hiding, No More Shame
- akennedyruns11
- Apr 14, 2017
- 2 min read
Updated: Jan 3, 2023
I have decided to make all of my posts relating to Sam's addiction public so they can be accessed without friending me. If you think a post may help another, please feel free to pass it on. My mission in sharing our story is to provide an honest look into the maddening world of heroin addiction from a parent's, specifically a single mom's, point of view, (because that is the only point of view that I have).
I will not discuss the use of legal drugs and alcohol among adults of legal age. My only focus is young people and their use, abuse, and addiction of legal and illegal drugs and alcohol, specifically heroin but it's never just heroin. All alcohol and drugs beyond most over the counter medicines are illegal for people under 21.
My focus is on simply sharing our story. I only know this world as it pertains to me and my own family and experiences. Other parents may have other opinions and may have made other choices regarding their kid's addiction. I am not trying to promote one recovery program or idea or trying to tell anyone what the best path is. The best choice for each family is the one that works for them. I am only trying to share my own story as I live it.
Sometimes these stories come out long after the fact. After years of sobriety or years after death. In other words, after years of hindsight. I wanted to share it as I walk through it because it helps me to focus my thoughts and connect with my soul. It also helps to enlighten the outside world just how difficult some of these decisions are now that they are mine to make.
The hard part about writing our story live as we walk through it is that I have no way of knowing how it will turn out. I know there are only two options though. The absolute best: sobriety, life, happiness, passion, and meaning. The absolute worst: Death.
That's all there is. Nothing else. No middle ground, no chance in hell that Sam will wake up one day a "Normie" as we refer to those without addiction. He has to choose to be sober one day at a time for the rest of his life or he will die.
I hope he makes that choice. Where there is life, there is hope. Thank you for reading. Love you.
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