Any advice on how to get clean while surrounded with users?
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Hi can you not take youself out the situation?
The problem is that they are my roommates. One snorts heroin, one shoots heroin, and one snorts hydrocodone and morphine. I’m in a rent to own situation, but this was before I realized that they were all users. In fact, on one particularly dark day nearly 3 months ago, I was offered a hit - convinced that it would take the sting away from a close relatives death. After that, I became hooked, like the rest of them. I have nowhere else to go, and it’s in my face on a daily basis. Everyone tells me that I need to get away, but, with my terrible credit score, it’s been impossible to get a new place. I’ve been trying since February.
Here’s my bigger issue, I have no car. My last one was bought through a scam and came with no title, no way to register it, and no way to legally drive it. I traded it to someone for a moped, which I can’t live in. These roommates and this house are all I’ve got. I want to learn the bus routes, because getting our of the house sounds like good solid advice. I’m scared I’m going to die if I continue on the path I’m on. I need all the prayers and support I can get.
It probably is easier if you can get away, but I think if you’re serious you can do it anywhere. I know it’s not the same, but when I quit smoking cigarettes, I went from 25-30 a day to zero while living with a smoker, because I was so sick of being tied to it and determined to stop. Other people’s actions have nothing to do with you unless you let them.
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Look into finding a recovery house. If you can get to NA meetings, you may meet someone there who can help you. It’s not impossible to stay clean whilst surrounded by addicts, but it’s certainly going to make it more difficult. You need to really want to change.