Earlier today I had a meeting with Rachel, a researcher from a TV production company based in London. The company she works for is looking to make a hard hitting, 2-part documentary about cocaine and heroin, which is planned to cover the whole process involved with drugs, that's everything from the farmers who grow the crops, to the street level user and the drug policy's that effect everyone, across the world.
They are looking for a city in the UK to film the heroin part of the program, and it looks like that city could be Cardiff! Rachel wanted to meet up with our volunteers to find out their feelings and thoughts on the issues facing drug users, how the drug policy's in place affect them and also to see if they wanted to be part of the cast!
Three of our volunteers were there, Chris Hobbs, Patrick McClellan and Brian White. It was a great meeting, everyone got stuck in debating the different issues that drug users are facing, from how people get into it, right through to how people get into recovery and what the treatment services can offer to them. We got on so well that three hours later we were still chatting!
Rachel seemed to have a passion for the truth and I got a really good feeling about what her company wanted to do. But if there's one thing that stood out for me, it's how proud I felt of the guys there. They've come such a long way in a short time, and for them to be there, meeting with a production company researcher, who wants to put them on prime time! Well I'm filling up just thinking about it. Next stop Hollywood lads!
Everyone of the guy's there was an ex-heroin user. It just shows that addiction can be overcome and it is possible to have a fulfilling, active life after drug addiction. I'm not just talking about a lucky few people who manage to cling on to recovery by the skin of their teeth, I'm saying that EVERYONE who has a drug addiction has the potential within themselves to conquer it and live a free life again. That inner potential just needs to be realised and gently nurtured in a supportive atmosphere.
2 comments:
You are right. Everyone can overcome addiction and I think that most of the drug users do. I am just wondering how come that the idea that there are just a "lucky few people", came from. And how come that it is so deeply rooted in society? Who does have profit from this idea?
Great stuff Kev, and thank you also pavel for your comments which are highly relevant.
I know from my practice experience, just how common drug use is in the entertainment industry. I also know how it has destroyed some, whilst others have come to terms with their addiction. Notwithstanding the propagand dispensed by the pro drug lobby, the latter is very much in the majority. They are not the 'lucky few' the pro drug lobby would have us believe; rather it is those unfortunate few who have been unable, or felt unable, or been led to believe that they are unable to function without their drugs of choice who have been destroyed. When I say destroyed, it is intended in the sense that they find themselves unable to function with or without their drugs of choice.
You are absolutely right Kev, the vast majority of those who are addicted can overcome themselves, and in doing so put their addiction into remission, not with medication, but rather without it. we know that drug addiction is frequently the outcome of 'self medication', therefore the last thing that addicts should consider is addictive drugs which serve only to increase the severity of their addiction.
That does not mean that addiction is not a chronic condition, it is, science has yet to find a cure for it. Nor does it mean that it has to be a constantly relapsing condition. those who are on the journey of recovery have discovered that their addiction can be put into lasting and sustainable remission, by staying away from drugs and taking the necessary action to bring about changes in their life which will ensure that whenever, as everyone in recovery is, they are faced with the temptation, they are only too well aware that a 'fix' is not going to solve anything, but simply make the problem worse.
So, please Keve and all you others in recovery, keep telling the world that recovery is not only possible, it is probable for those who want it.
For those who have been 'brainwashed' by the pro drug lobby into believing that you're 'not ready', remeber that there are very prominent influential forces within the UK and worldwide, who have vested interests in spreading the use of drugs. Of course they would deny that under the guises of 'compassion' and 'understanding', 'freedom of choice' and so on. Stop listening to them. almost everyone can recover, they just need to want recovery more than the isolation, and desperation of active addiction.
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