Drug treatment taught me how to live. That sounds corny, I know, but it’s more or less the truest way to put it. Drug treatment taught me how to live. Drug treatment, more to the point, taught me how to live without using drugs. It wasn’t easy. The most important things never are. But it was worth it. Drug treatment gave me myself back: my hope and joy and vitality. Drug rehab saved me from myself. Drug treatment taught me how to live. Without it, I don’t even want to imagine where I’d be today.

Successful drug treatment is about mastery, when you really get down to it: mastery over yourself, mastery over your need. Addiction is a consequence of failing to control your impulses, of succumbing to the dictums of your overwhelming drug cravings. Drug treatment gives you the power to say No. That’s what it did for me, anyway. Drug treatment helped me fashion myself into a new being: a person who could be in and of the world without getting high. Like I said, it taught me how to live, in a way and with a spirit that I’d never thought possible. Drug treatment can do the same thing for you, if you let it. Don’t wait another day to start finding that out for yourself.

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