Paul Smith Carter | 6:47 a.m. Sept. 22, 2007
How sad it is that this problem exists, but how fortunate it is that there are people that are working to help those who have fallen for the false promises that such problems bring.
Anonymous | 12:50 p.m. Sept. 22, 2007
cool!! Lets party!!
BJ | 2:42 p.m. Sept. 22, 2007
I watched as my sister fell deeper and deeper into the world of drugs and alchol until she died of an overdose of cocain. How sad to watch as she melted away. The pain she left as she drifted through life to our parents, her siblings, and her children.
The only time she went home to her husband was on payday to get some money and then off she went with her "friends".
I used her choices to educate my 7 children as to the destruction drugs can do. Six listened and now after many years the seventh is drug free.
It is great to know that there is help for those who really want it. Thanks VOA
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Great Job | 5:21 p.m. Sept. 22, 2007
Congratulations on quitting. I think very few things can damage a life like drugs. I wish you the best in your efforts to stay clean.
Paul A. Coulis, Gaithersburg, MD | 9:34 a.m. Sept. 24, 2007
As one who worked in the area of drug dependence and addiction during my entire career in the Federal Government, my hat is off to you for your courage and perseverance.

Your greatest challenge for the rest of your life will be to stay "clean" and avoid the people, music, places, and other cognitive "cues" that will bring back the craving you have struggled so hard to overcome.

Please stay close to your treatment providers, those family members and friends who will love and support you, and, above all, to the Lord, whom even the most down-and-out person starting a 12-Step program acknowledges to be the Key to abstinence.

You have accomplished a personal victory that places you far beyond the sad condition of folks who only have just begun the long journey to freedom from addiction, but please keep your guard up at all times and strive to immerse yourself in good works, family, career, faith in the Lord, and everything else beautiful that you can find or that finds you. Good luck and God bless.

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