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**BorBitExatini** · 07-11-2007, 07:50 AM

I'm 15. I drink when I can, although I was taking a small break because i had alcohol poising the other week. I smoked weed a good amount. I started DXM(an ingredient in cough syrup) on Saturday and I was arrested for shoplifting shortly before I was gonna take DXM again. I can tell you now I would've started taking DXM almost everyday if it wasn't for getting arrested. I'm in Boy Scouts now and my brother said that helped him not do drugs and drink but he still drank a lot. So I think between Boy Scouts and training in the way of the sword I can resist my old habits.

There is no doubt that you are headed down a bad path that leads to world of hurt, that you recognize this and are looking to turn it around is admirable. That you have drank to the point of alcohol poisoning and smoke a good amount of weed is of deep concern to me. Clearly you have an addictive physiology and psychology and you have used drugs pretty hard while your mind is still trying to develop. I do agree that finding better things to do with your time can only help, find new friends will help as well, but as you can see by your brother’s actions it did not keep him away from the alcohol.

A friend of mine went through this kind of difficulty and it took him a while to clean up his act. He was able to though, was the best man at my wedding, and I am still friends with him 20 years later. You need people who have been there and can help you through before it gets worse. If you try and do it by your self it may well get worse before it gets better.

http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org/

Make it you mission this week to find a Dojo and an AA meeting. Make it you mission next week to go to both.

07-11-2007, 07:50 AM	#32
BorBitExatini Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 356 Senior Member	I'm 15. I drink when I can, although I was taking a small break because i had alcohol poising the other week. I smoked weed a good amount. I started DXM(an ingredient in cough syrup) on Saturday and I was arrested for shoplifting shortly before I was gonna take DXM again. I can tell you now I would've started taking DXM almost everyday if it wasn't for getting arrested. I'm in Boy Scouts now and my brother said that helped him not do drugs and drink but he still drank a lot. So I think between Boy Scouts and training in the way of the sword I can resist my old habits. There is no doubt that you are headed down a bad path that leads to world of hurt, that you recognize this and are looking to turn it around is admirable. That you have drank to the point of alcohol poisoning and smoke a good amount of weed is of deep concern to me. Clearly you have an addictive physiology and psychology and you have used drugs pretty hard while your mind is still trying to develop. I do agree that finding better things to do with your time can only help, find new friends will help as well, but as you can see by your brother’s actions it did not keep him away from the alcohol. A friend of mine went through this kind of difficulty and it took him a while to clean up his act. He was able to though, was the best man at my wedding, and I am still friends with him 20 years later. You need people who have been there and can help you through before it gets worse. If you try and do it by your self it may well get worse before it gets better. http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org/ Make it you mission this week to find a Dojo and an AA meeting. Make it you mission next week to go to both.
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