News of Substance Abuse Disorders Forum

My husband and I have recently separated after 13 years of marriage.
I believe he has some type of mental health disorder but am not sure what it is or whether he could be treated for it.

He’s an alcoholic and substance abuser, in that he binge drinks but can abstain for up to 6 months at a time and he has smoked cannabis for about 25 years. I have also noticed that he will ...

This is my first post, i need some insight on what to do.
I am aware that i can not control or change my father's alcoholism and mental illness.

Growing up with two alcoholic parents, as a child i have been here before a few times.
My dad is unable to cope with bumps in the road, death, work stress, emotions, etc.
He has always turned to drinking, very heavily along with prescription drugs for ...

I am so angry right now.

About six months ago my mother got into a car accident while she was drunk. Per court order, she had to wear a bracelet that monitored alcohol consumption around her ankle, and would have went to jail if she drank at all.

For the last six months she told me how healthy she felt, that she didn't miss alcohol and was never going to drink again. She seemed so ...

Hello all,

This is my first post to this forum. I've posted in the bipolar forum in the past.

I wanted to go to an AA meeting at the veterans hospital tonight but couldn't handle the driving. I'm too agitated and paranoid to drive in rush hour traffic, so I'm posting instead.

I have been abstinent from drugs and alcohol since April 1994. For 15 years I was into psychedelics and black out drinking. Someone ...

I found a really good article written about addiction myths. It can be found here.

he's been an alcoholic since he was 22 years old.
growing up, i never really noticed his problem.
but as i got older, my mother would confide in me.
he was going through a 24 case of beer every 3 nights.
eventually she left him when i was fourteen.
he was court ordered to not drink around his kids
but he found a loophole and made sure we never saw him drink
all the time ...

Hey,
I'm Julie. 28. Been addicted to heroin for 8 years and had phases of other addictions especially adderall
I didn't finish college and have never held a job more than a few months. I am still being sent money from my parents to pay my rent and groceries etc., which is humiliating. I have lost literally all my friends and the only ppl I see are slime balls. This is by far the most ...

When I reflect on my life I can see clearly the dramatic and negative impact that drugs and alcohol have had on me, and that it's a cyclic patten that comes and goes over the years. It happens with both drinking and drugs and I've finally started to map out what my pattern is and realize that the only thing in the way of my full recovery to sobriety is me.

Every time I get ...

I'm back again begging for advice. I really don't know what to do, I've loved him for 10years and I'm not a user at all and have not ties to that community apart from my estranged partner. He's begging me for help but does nothing to help himself. What do I do? I'm not sure if he's now injecting in his neck

Honseltly I'm not sure where to put this. Substance abuse is not the only problem but it seems like the source of everything, so... here's my story.

I think that I'm an addict since years - I just controlled that situation and I was able to keep it hidden (so far). I haven't been caught in the act, or something like that - so I denied it for years. I've had breaks in using when ...