Unhealthy Family and Opioid Overdose
As a child, Sabrina’s parents’ divorce was tough but turning to drugs and experiencing opioid overdose wasn’t in her plans. While growing up, she felt more at ease with her mother, however, her father was emotionally distant.
Sabrina’s father was strict and controlling. Her mother who was emotionally available had her own issues of depression. Sabrina recalls almost no communication between them after the divorce. Throughout childhood, as she went to and from both her parents’ homes.
The instability affected her development more than anyone around her realized, and she wanted to escape. Sabrina had all of these inner issues and did not know how to deal with them in a healthy way.
Secretive behaviors were one of the first ways she would try to escape reality as a child. She’d go into her mother or sister’s room to steal change so she could walk to the store and get chocolate frosting.
Sabrina would go home and hide in her closet and eat the entire large container of frosting. This was the beginning of Sabrina’s tendencies towards addictive behavior. Sugar was the first thing that she used to numb herself until she began drug abuse to escape reality.
Effects of Crystal Meth
During Sabrina’s teenage years, her family’s instability and issues continued to affect her development; her parents still didn’t realize how much their daughter was suffering. Without the emotional skills and tools to deal with things, she turned to unhealthy ways of coping.
Sabrina moved on to self-harm next as a way to escape the pain and emotional turmoil that she felt inside. Her parents eventually caught on to her self-harming but didn’t intervene in any significant way.
Looking back, Sabrina suspects that her parents were overwhelmed and just didn’t know how to deal with the problem. Eventually, during her teen years, she moved on to drugs to numb the pain.
At age 16, she went to a party and was offered Methamphetamine for the first time. Sabrina recalls a lot of the negative feelings that she had gone away when she experienced the crystal meth high; she felt beautiful and alive when she was high.
Unfortunately, the people who offered it to her at the party didn’t mention the comedown. Sabrina went home and when she began to come down, she went into a deep depression where she felt that it would be better to end her own life. Sabrina attempted to kill herself by swallowing a bottle of pills.
The next thing she knew, she was in the emergency room with her family surrounding her in tears, terrified of losing her. But Sabrina could only think about how she was devastated to still be alive.
Teenage Drug Abuse Treatment
As a result of this incident, Sabrina went to a mental hospital for adolescents called St. Luke’s. Soon after Sabrina got out of St. Luke’s, she ended up going to another party. At this party, she encountered Ecstasy for the first time and she loved the almost spiritual experience that it gave her.
One night, she was offered opioid painkillers to help her come down from Ecstasy and Acid that she had taken earlier. She quickly became addicted to opioids and found herself physically dependent, experiencing withdrawals any time she didn’t use them.
Sabrina’s life was quickly affected by her opioid addiction. She dropped out of college, burned bridges with her family and friends and eventually lost everything. This began her cycle of going in and out of detox centers.
Each time Sabrina would go in hoping and praying to get clean from drugs, she would only find that addiction’s grip on her was too strong. Sabrina was lost so deep in her addiction and recalls the things she did for drugs quickly became more and more demoralizing.
12-step Program and Treatment
Sabrina went through the revolving door of detox and treatment centers for quite some time. One day while Sabrina was in deep despair, she reached out a friend that she knew and told her that she couldn’t handle her life on drugs anymore.
This friend, in turn, got in contact with a treatment center and was able to offer Sabrina a full 30-day scholarship to get treatment.
Sabrina was overcome with gratitude that she was being offered help and finally decided to take full advantage—she began to work her steps and found a sponsor. Her speck of willingness went a long way in completing her steps.
Sabrina is realistic: now that she is sober, life isn’t going to be perfect, but at least she has the tools to overcome anything that comes her way. She’s been clean and sober since March 30, 2017, and her entire life has improved.
Sabrina now works at the treatment center where she got her 30-day scholarship; she has a community of women that care about her and she has the support she needs to deal with life on life’s terms.
She has the heart to help others and she continues to look for ways to do that. Sabrina knows that there is a way out of drug addiction and she is willing to help those who are struggling to find it as she did. She will be forever grateful to those who extended their hand to help her when she was at her darkest point.
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34 comments
I also started kinda binging out on sweets at a young age. I read somewhere that sugar is more addictive than cocaine, wonder if that’s true.
Thank God Sabrina had a second chance to life, asking for help is a very crucial thing to do. Thank God for her lovely family who wanted her to recover from drug addiction. Detox to rehab thank you for sharing this amazing story of recovery.
From this story, we all must understand the role of parental love and guidance… Most of the cases of addiction we see are caused by parental factors.
Congratulations Sabrina
Many thanks for quitting addiction. Thanks for sharing this blog.
Sabrina’s story is very pathetic. She never had the plan to go into addiction but she did and it had negative effect on her life. Glad that she took the 12 step program and now finding a way out of addiction and overdose for better life.
Sabrina’s story summarizes that there is always a way out of Evey challenge.
Beautiful article.
Glad that Sabrina knows that there is a way out of addiction. She had been through a lot of challenges through addiction and opioid overdose but really happy she find her path to recovery through the 12 step program.
Thanks for 12-step treatment programme of Detox Rehab. Tennage drug and alcohol addiction is getting out of hands this time around. Parents should be up and doing especially in children upbringing.
Sabrina’s journey through addiction is very touching. She faced a lot challenges through her childhood as a result of addiction. I am really happy for her finding her path to recovery.
This story is worth reading over again.
Thank you.
One thing I believe is if anyone is ready to change, the change is ever ready for such a person. Congratulations to you.
Sabrina’s story is an emotional and inspiring story. Thanks Detox for helping her out. Really happy she came out of her addiction
Sabrina your story got me really thinking what would of become if I started smoking when I was going through my low moments in life. Learned alot here
Whatever is causing you to harm yourself isn’t a good thing. Alcoholism is evil, please desist from it.
Parents need to combine both home and work properly, it will help them to have a healthy child to avoid addiction by the child that they are not aware of. This story is an eye opener
Sabrena started using to escape emotional issues cause of her upbringing, this looks like what other are saying too. Always something sounds common. We shouldn’t try use drugs to escape some situations in our lives
Eating sugar is a very bad addiction. Sugar is worse than a drug. Younger age girl should be kept for away from sugar.
Thank you Detax to rehab for sharing these type of stories with all of us.These stories are really very much inspirational for many people who are addicted with something and try to recover from that.
when one parent is strict and the other is fighting depression, the probability that the kid will use drug just to feel wanted is very high…a family’s instability affect the child..
I’m happy Sabrina got a 30-day scholarship to get treatment through a friend.. thank you Sabrina for your willingness to now help others fighting with drug addiction…you have a heart of gold
Sabrina’s friend was her angel that God used for her recovery. There are friends and there’s one that wants the best for you.
Seriously finding a ways out of addiction is like finding a raw gold in the field. Becomes like really is this how sweet life is really. So many people start showing you unconditional love.
This is a well detailed piece of work . Going through it I have gotten to acquire do much knowledge about a lot of things and that is fair enough.
Its very obvious that one cannot come clean by him or herself. We need a working program or system to help us after we have determined to get help.
you really have a tough time in your childhood and at such a young age you cant discriminate between what is wrong or right for you, but you have recovered is a nice thing to hear.
The family had a lot to do in bringing up wards. Monitoring them not to go astray is another thing. Drug abuse and the likes leads no where.
Thanks for sharing such a different scenario based story . Definitely it is going to help . Commenting for reach.
To every problem there’s a solution. I particularly appreciate the untiring effort of Detox in rehabilitating drug addicts.
Sabrina’s addiction will be accorded the deserved attention by Detox since a problem shared is half solved. It is vital to prevent drug addiction because prevention is better than cure.
Prays for God Sabrina, your life is valueable for you, don’t waste Your time on your life,and I am glad that you have improve life after sober and get job , keep sober guys
This is why I say that organizations like these should be global. At times knowing that there is a way out helps and they give people that. Granted they are willing to take it.
What a sad story that almost made me shed tears. The good news is that there was a way out and she found it. It’s a relieve.
It is a good initiative she is doing. Helping others is one way to keep others get out of addiction.
Sabrina found himself into drug addicts without her plan. But there is always a way out of whatever one might be passing through in life. Thank for sharing this information here.
This story is a sad one but thank God Sabrina was able to get the way out. Thank you for sharing this information here.