cherryontop

Working in a service helping people affected by drug use means that I have heard a lot of stories about how difficult it can be to make those first steps to get help.

Firstly a lot of people worry about the confidentiality of it all - will they tell me parents - employer - doctor etc? Will someone see me going in the door? What if I know someone in there? Well, the best thing about services like that is that they are confidential and nothing shows up on the medical records. The building ...

A lot of people are worried about getting help for their drug use because they think that they will be forced to give it up straight away and they're not always sure if that is what they want to do ? but getting help doesn't necessarily mean quitting completely ? depending on a person's circumstances it can mean cutting it down to a level that doesn't cause them problems, for other people it could mean quitting ? but over a period of time, little by little, cutting it down.
For other people, ...

Sometimes when we have problems, we know the solutions but things just don?t go our way. That?s what happened to a girl who I worked with once who had just graduated from uni and fell into a
pretty good job in the city. Along the way she got involved with using coke ? someone had offered it to her one night after work and little by little she used more and more until finally she was using far more than anyone else and it was no longer a Friday night thing, but an every night thing and it had ...