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It can be hard to look back and wonder who you might have been if addiction had never become part of your story.

That version of your life may never be something you can go back and rewrite, but recovery still gives you the chance to decide what happens next. The years behind you do not have to determine the years ahead of you.

There is still time to build a life you are proud of, even if the path there looks different than you once imagined. It’s never too late to start!

Follow for honest recovery stories, encouragement, and reminders to keep going one day at a time. by @control.addiction

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2 days ago

Movies about addiction are able to show how many different faces the same disease wears, and how far its reach extends past just the person living with it.

This list rounds up just three of countless titles, each one showing a different piece of what addiction and recovery actually look like.

Some will land differently depending on where you are right now: still using, sober, or trying to understand someone you love.

If you’re somewhere in that fight right now, you are not alone and you do not have to figure out the next step by yourself.

Resources available to you right now:
SAMHSA National Helpline — 1-800-662-4357 (free, confidential, 24/7, English and Spanish)
Crisis & Mental Health Support — call or text 988
Text your zip code to 435748 to find local treatment near you

Follow for part 2.

#RecoveryIsPossible #Movies #AddictionRecovery by @control.addiction

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3 days ago

Susan’s dealer was the one who told her to stop.

Not a doctor, no staged family intervention. The person selling her pills looked at where she was headed and said enough.

That’s not how most people picture their turning point into recovery, talking with your dealer that really has no reason to want her sober, telling her to get help anyway.

Susan started looking into treatment that same week. She didn’t wait for things to get worse first.

This is a real story from our community, and as of today, she is more than five years sober. If someone in your life needs this reminder, send it to them.

Resources available to you right now:
SAMHSA National Helpline — 1-800-662-4357 (free, confidential, 24/7, English and Spanish)
Crisis & Mental Health Support — call or text 988
Text your zip code to 435748 to find local treatment near you

Follow along for more real stories of people fighting for their own recovery, one day at a time.

#RecoveryIsPossible #AddictionRecovery by @control.addiction

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4 days ago

This is a real story from one of our community members in recovery.

“I never sincerely attempted to get clean until I made the decision myself.”

He’d kicked drugs before, more than once, for people he loved: parents, family, friends. A few of those times it was a legal obligation, not a choice at all. None of it stuck the way this one did.

“The one thing I can say with absolute certainty is that quitting drugs will only work if someone truly wants to stop.”

That’s the part treatment can’t do for you. What it can do is be there the moment you’re ready, without a waitlist, a clinic visit, or a lecture standing between you and the decision you already made.

Resources available to you right now:
SAMHSA National Helpline — 1-800-662-4357 (free, confidential, 24/7, English and Spanish)
Crisis & Mental Health Support — call or text 988
Text your zip code to 435748 to find local treatment near you

If you’re ready to make that decision for yourself, link is in our bio.
Follow us for more real stories from people navigating addiction and recovery. by @control.addiction

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5 days ago

When you choose the path of recovery from substance use, there will come a moment when you look in the mirror and see a completely different person. Every day you choose recovery, change is happening gradually, until one day you look back at memories of yourself in active addiction and no longer recognize who that person was. No matter how many days you’ve built in recovery, whether it’s day 1 or day 100, we hope you feel proud of how far you’ve come.

Follow for more daily addiction recovery content.

#WeDoRecover #AddictionRecovery #RecoveryIsPossible by @control.addiction

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6 days ago

Heath Ledger grew up in Perth, Australia, in a house that came apart when he was ten, and left school altogether at sixteen to chase acting on his own terms. By nineteen he’d broken out in 10 Things I Hate About You. By twenty six, Brokeback Mountain had him nominated for an Oscar.

Then came the Joker. He shut himself in a London hotel for a month to build the character, kept a diary, pushed himself into what he called the realm of a psychopath. He was still calling the role physically and mentally draining months after wrapping.

On January 22, 2008, he was found unresponsive in his Manhattan apartment. He was twenty eight. Medical examiners ruled it an accident, six prescription medications combined, including the painkillers oxycodone and hydrocodone alongside drugs meant to help him sleep and calm down. Not one thing. All of them, together.

A year later, his parents and sister walked onto the Oscars stage to accept his Best Supporting Actor award, the second ever given to someone after their death. His sister said they were accepting it on behalf of his daughter.

He once said it plainly: “I only do this because I’m having fun. The day I stop having fun, I’ll just walk away.”

If you are somewhere in that fight right now, you are not alone and you do not have to figure out the next step by yourself.

Resources available to you right now:

SAMHSA National Helpline — 1-800-662-4357 (free, confidential, 24/7, English and Spanish)
Crisis & Mental Health Support — call or text 988
Text your zip code to 435748 to find local treatment near you

If you are looking for compassionate, judgment-free treatment for opioid use disorder through a virtual visit with a real clinician, link is in our bio.

Follow us for more stories of real people navigating addiction and finding their way to recovery. by @control.addiction

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6 days ago

Chris Herren has survived four overdoses.

When he overdosed on heroin behind the wheel in his hometown of Fall River, his vehicle crashed into a Dunkin’ Donuts. Paramedics reported that his heart stopped for nearly thirty seconds before they were able to revive him.

Chris Herren had lived the dream, a hometown kid who made it all the way to the Boston Celtics. Then a childhood friend sold him OxyContin outside his own house. Twenty dollars became a twenty-five-thousand-dollar-a-month habit, and when the pills got too expensive, heroin took over, following him from the NBA to overseas courts to that car.

He woke up in a hospital, alive for the fourth time. A few weeks later, on August 1, 2008, he used for the last time.

He has been sober ever since. He wrote a memoir, became the subject of an ESPN documentary, and built the Herren Project, which has helped thousands of families find treatment.

He survived four overdoses so he could spend the rest of his life making sure other people never need a fifth.

If you are somewhere in that fight right now, you are not alone and you do not have to figure out the next step by yourself.

Resources available to you right now:
SAMHSA National Helpline — 1-800-662-4357 (free, confidential, 24/7, English and Spanish)
Crisis & Mental Health Support — call or text 988
Text your zip code to 435748 to find local treatment near you

If you are looking for compassionate, judgment-free treatment for opioid use disorder through a virtual visit with a real clinician, link is in our bio.

Follow us for more stories of real people navigating addiction and finding their way to recovery. by @control.addiction

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9 days ago

Nobody’s forgotten you. People are still checking their phones hoping it’s you.

Recovery doesn’t happen because someone deserves it more than someone else. It happens because someone decides today is the day they start, even scared, even unsure how.

Send this to someone who needs a reminder that you’re thinking about them.

#RecoveryIsPossible #WeDoRecover #AddictionRecovery by @control.addiction

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10 days ago

Johnny Depp was 47 and one of the most famous actors alive when a back injury on a movie set left him in constant pain.

Long before any of that, Johnny Depp was a kid learning to disappear. His mother lashed out without warning, a shoe, an ashtray, whatever was closest, and by 12 he was taking her nerve pills and anything else he could find, just to stop feeling so much. When he was 15, his father walked out and told him he was the man of the house now, leaving him to hold up a mother who was barely holding on.

So when a doctor handed him Roxicodone for the back injury, the escape was already familiar. Pain relief became a four-year dependency, the pills nursing the injury and the old wounds at the same time.

Getting off them was not glamorous. On his doctor’s advice he went to a remote island and detoxed the hard way, a brutal stretch with no shortcuts. He came off the opioids, and he stayed off them.

The next year, he severed part of a finger. Even in that much pain, he refused to take the opioid again.

For most of his life, drugs were how he disappeared. This time, he chose to stay.

If you are somewhere in that fight right now, you are not alone and you do not have to figure out the next step by yourself.

Resources available to you right now:
SAMHSA National Helpline — 1-800-662-4357 (free, confidential, 24/7, English and Spanish)
Crisis & Mental Health Support — call or text 988
Text your zip code to 435748 to find local treatment near you

If you are looking for compassionate, judgment-free treatment for opioid use disorder through a virtual visit with a real clinician, link is in our bio.

Follow us for more stories of real people navigating addiction and finding their way to recovery. by @control.addiction

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10 days ago

Nobody builds a recovery in a day. They didn’t build the addiction that way either.

One of our community members put it simply: you have to build recovery the same way you built the habit you’re trying to leave, day by day, one choice after another, none of it happening all at once.

Falling off the wagon doesn’t erase the work already done. It’s what being human inside an addiction actually looks like, and it doesn’t undo the days that came before it.

However far into this you are, there’s still a next step, and you don’t have to find it alone.

Resources available to you right now:
SAMHSA National Helpline, 1-800-662-4357, free, confidential, 24/7, English and Spanish
Crisis & Mental Health Support, call or text 988
Text your zip code to 435748 to find local treatment near you

Follow our account for more stories of addiction recovery. by @control.addiction

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11 days ago

Chris Herren was fourteen years old when he broke a promise to his mother and cracked open one of his father’s beers.

His father, a longtime state representative back home in Fall River, Massachusetts, was by his own son’s description a vicious drinker. That’s the house this starts in.

By eighteen he’s doing his first line of cocaine at Boston College, failing a drug test before he plays a single game there. By twenty five he’s living the dream, drafted home to play for the Boston Celtics, and it’s there that a childhood friend sells him OxyContin outside his own house. Twenty dollars turns into a twenty five thousand dollar a month habit. He starts buying pills before games. The Celtics release him after twenty five.

The addiction follows him overseas as his career fades, and heroin follows soon after. In 2005, his mother dies never having seen him sober. Her dying wish, he’s said, was for him to get clean, and he didn’t give it to her in time.

Three years later, he overdoses on heroin in a Dunkin’ Donuts parking lot, crashes his car into a utility pole, and his heart stops for nearly thirty seconds before paramedics bring him back.

He gets sober on August 1, 2008, the same day his third child is born, the only one of his kids born to a sober father. Since then: a memoir, an ESPN documentary, and a nonprofit he runs with his wife that has helped thousands of families find treatment.

In his own words: treatment and faith gave him sobriety. He calls it his life’s greatest gift.
If you are somewhere in that fight right now, you are not alone and you do not have to figure out the next step by yourself.

Resources available to you right now:
SAMHSA National Helpline — 1-800-662-4357 (free, confidential, 24/7, English and Spanish)
Crisis & Mental Health Support — call or text 988
Text your zip code to 435748 to find local treatment near you

If you are looking for compassionate, judgment-free treatment for opioid use disorder through a virtual visit with a real clinician, link is in our bio. by @control.addiction

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12 days ago

Susan’s been in recovery long enough to know exactly which part of her story people flinch at, and she says it anyway.

Stigma treats addiction like a character flaw, like something that only happens to certain kinds of people. Susan is pushing back on that directly: a bad problem can take hold of a good person, and needing help for it says nothing about who they are underneath it.

That distinction is bigger than it sounds. A lot of people never ask for help because they’ve already decided they’re the bad person the stigma describes them as.

Susan has been in recovery for over five years and hopes her story can help others see that there is a way out.

Resources available to you right now:
SAMHSA National Helpline — 1-800-662-4357 (free, confidential, 24/7, English and Spanish)
Crisis & Mental Health Support — call or text 988
Text your zip code to 435748 to find local treatment near you

Follow along for more real stories of people fighting for their own recovery, one day at a time.

#RecoveryIsPossible #AddictionRecovery #RecoveryJourney by @control.addiction

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13 days ago