I’m so proud of Tammi! She has had a long time addiction to crack cocaine…somewhere around fifteen years I think. Like many of the users we see, she has tried over and over again to break the addiction. It’s an addiction folks! Don’t kid yourselves….it can be very hard to stop an addiction!! As much as we would like to say that our friends we serve just make the decision to quit and then stop, never to return to the vice again, that is not really the way it is usually. Often they stop for a time, days or weeks or sometimes months but then something triggers the addiction again, it’s too strong of a lure and *poof*, back on the substance they tried so hard to stay away from. Tammi has been like that. Off the drug and back on again, off and on again, always feeling bad when she’s on, proud when she’s off, but trying, over and over again. I pray for her. I pray the day will come when she quits for good. I pray for the day that she is strong enough to not be enticed by the pull of the drug or the trigger that consumes her thoughts. But right now, I’m just proud of her. Today marks her one month anniversary of being clean….again. Way to go Tammi
-Erin
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