A Day In The Life of an Addict
August 2006
This is a day in the life of me as an addict. I would get up around 4:00 am. I would drive 30 minutes each way to go and pick up some drugs (morphine). I would call the night before and if I couldn’t go and pick up the drugs that night he would put the drugs somewhere and let me know where they were. They would be on the side of the road, in a mailbox, back of a truck, in an old tire, etc. Depending on how many I got, I would do one or two when I got them. It would take me right at an hour to get to work. I have a few things to do when I first got there. I would do another [pill] at 6:30 am or 7:00 am. We would usually change over around 10:00 am or 10:30 am and I would do another one then. We took lunch about 12 noon. I would do one or two after I ate lunch. It was always a guess what time we got off work. Usually it would be between 6:00 pm ‘til 9:00 pm. I would do one between that time. I would do another when I got off work. I would get on the phone and start calling to see what I was going to get that night or the next morning. It was like drugs were always on my mind. I would wake up thinking about drugs ‘til I went to bed. I would get anywhere from 5 to 20 [pills] every day or every other day. If I didn’t have anything I physically couldn’t get up to go to work.
to be continued.............
September 2006 Update
This is a day in my life since I have been clean. I get up around 5:30 am. I am in Phase III so I have take homes on Monday – Wednesday. The other days I go dose. I don’t spend near the money I did. I don’t spend the time looking for something. I’m not worried about being pulled over by the police. When I get off work I can go straight home and play with my son. That means the world to me. The clinic has given me so much of my life back. I am able to pay my bills and still have some money left at the end of the month to buy my son some toys. I am getting myself out of the hole, not digging myself deeper in. That’s wonderful.

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