I wouldn’t be here, today, without drug treatment. Drug abuse ruined my life, but drug treatment saved it: gave me the power get over the Need. I can’t go back, now, to fix everything that heroin destroyed…but at least I can go forward, and convince people like you that drug treatment is the last best chance you’ve got. Please, for your own sake, make the right decision. With so much to lose, you can’t afford to do anything else.

When I was on heroin I wasn’t Me. I was someone, of course…but whoever it was was a stranger to anyone I’d ever believed myself to be. When I was on heroin, all I knew or cared about was Using: the next hit, the next high. With heroin, I was everything I needed to be. Without it, I was nothing.

Heroin abuse ruined my life, if you really want to know. I could try to sugarcoat it, tell you about how I Grew As a Person because of the experience, but that wouldn’t change the thing: wouldn’t change the fact that substance abuse cost me my wife, my kids, my career. If you or someone you care about is a heroin addict, please don’t make the same mistake I did. Don’t ignore the problem. Don’t pretend like it doesn’t exist. Most importantly, don’t be fool enough to believe you can get better on your own.

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