We all have our demons. Some may be as simple as a need to succeed at all costs, or some may be as troubling as drugs and alcohol, or as provacative as an addiction to sex or porn. Even if we ourselves do not have an addiction that is that severe, more often then than not we know someone who has an addiction of the sort.
This became ever more apperant for me last week. Though I have dealt with my fathers addiction to drugs and alcohol, I had become numb to it through him. Though I tried my hardestto talk him out of his addictive lifestyle he continues to speed towards destruction.
My zero tolerance approch to drug addiction has lead me on the path I am on today, including my future career in law enforcement. Throughout my life, anytime I have discovered a friend has been using drugs I have made it a point to cut ties completely from that individual. That has been my motivation in my life... Until the other day.....
Last Thursday a close friend at school was very emotional and talked of suicide. Though I did my best to calm her during the entire day, she continued to act overly emotional. The next day I found out about her addiction. Though I will not go into details to protect privacy I can say I was very tempted to cut ties with her in the same fashion I had with every other person in my life that has battled addiction.
The reason I decided not to is I had helped her with so many other problems and I felt I had to exhaust every possible avenue I had to help her. She called me Friday and we got into an arguement that led to me telling her exactly what I thought of her addiction, which in turn, led to her hanging up on me. At that point I said "Thats it.. Im done"; however, I did not know how wrong I was.
She called me 45 minutes later to tell me she was sorry and that I was right and she needed help. I suggested a rehab facility and she agreed that she needed to go into rehab. It was at this point that she started to think about how she has put her friends through hell and that gave her the determination she needed to follow through with the decision to get clean.
So here I sit, typing away at the computer on campus and I have her on the phone while she is in the waiting room of the rehab going through withdraws. All I know to say is to keep calm and remember that the amount of time it takes to get admitted is nothing compared to the lifetime of clean and sober living that will follow after treatment.
As I type this last thought she has just been taken to triage and her nurse has told her she will most likely be admitted into the rehab. I have been put in charge by her to inform her family and friends as to what her status is throughout her period in the rehab. What will the future hold? One cannot say for sure, but I look at it through the eyes of an optimist, truley beleiving that she will pull through and be a better person when she walks out of the hospital at the end of her treatment.
I know she has it in her, I just hope she remembers that her friends are with her and she has the strength to kick this addiction and never look back....
I will write more as the information becomes availible. I will leave you with thease final words,
No addiction is more powerful than the willpower to overcome. All that is needed is the willpower to slay your demons
Good day,
Leland
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