DISCLAIMER WARNING!!

Let me make this abundantly clear before I begin, I am not a medical professional and I am NOT offering any kind of professional medical/mental health service.

HOWEVER, I am detailing how I got sober and what works and has continued to work for me.

Your personal path may be in a total opposite direction than mine, if so I wish you success on your journey and I'll see you on the other side! Our paths may take us down different roads but the ending goal remains the same.

The other side is not as unobtainable as you may think it is, I promise you that!! Start somewhere, anywhere just get there whatever way you feel is right for you! Keep in mind that everyone stumbles, falls, Hell you may fall and wipe the fuck out, but ALWAYS get back up and keep going!

Life will knock you down time and time again whether your sober or not just remember life hits like a bitch and my fellow soldier a bitch you are not! Get back up, wipe yourself off and solider on!!

I'm gonna tell y'all what worked for me, again you may be or went in a different direction to get clean than I did, if so great!

Whatever works!

I didn't and won't EVER go into a rehab, I despise 12 step programs and NA, they are not for me! I know they have helped tons of people and continue to help but for me that wasn't the way to go.

I follow a MAT (medication treatment program) Suboxone actually, I've been on Methadone in the past and though it works well I couldn't deal with the side effects. Also methadone became my DOC (drug of choice) I could achieve a very addicting blissful an almost explicit euphoric state.

Yeah, I loved methadone.

The suboxone not so much, it tastes nasty and I cant get high from it, what can I say? Im a drug addict and will always miss that warm fuzzy feeling....

Suboxone is a very good thing for me, I see my doctor and counsler 1x a month and if I need them more than that I can call and get right in.

I had a bad experience with a clinic prior to finding the one I go to now, it was a very hypocritical and judgemental place.

Look, I know I'm an addict, I didn't need people who had never walked in my shoes looking down on me. I have a hard enough time accepting myself and my past without a judgemental fuck turning his nose down on me trying to tell me how I needed to recover, like GTFO somewhere else with your textbook shit and "Degree".

I've been on opiates daily since 1999, for me MAT is the only way to go. I don't ever see myself coming off Suboxone and to be honest the thought gives me major anxiety!

I'm on a fairly decent dose and have been since Nov 2018, BUT I'll take the prescribed Suboxone any day over taking 2 Oxycontin 80mg tablets and a shot of meth before my feet got the floor every morning or waking up with withdrawals and being on a constant hunt to buy pills!

Suboxone saved my life! If you are an opiate addict look into Suboxone Treatment, I'm telling you it saves lives!!

If you relapse, fuck it! At least when you decide it's time to get clean again you know what to expect and It won't be such an unfamiliar or scary concept.

Like the saying goes - "Fall down 7 stand up 8", just keep going it will get easier, I promise!!

If nobody else believes in you, just know that I do and ALWAYS believe in yourself!!

See ya on the other side....

Jena Lynn