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I am Harpal Singh and today I am free from addiction not only physically but psychologically too and I have worked hard for it. This effort is still continuing as I don’t want to relapse again. I am satisfied with my improvement...
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My father used to be of a dictatorial type and I was of a reserved and shy nature. I was very good at studies. Started taking bear and drugs in school age and it continued for 17 years. During this period I lost my health, happy relationship and my brother committed suicide, as he was also an addict, one of the known friend also committed suicide. I developed tuberculosis, my son was also suffering from tuberculosis...
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My father used to drink and I used to react to him. He used to drink from morning till evening. It was more of emotional problem rather than financial. During my education days in Chandigarh I took alcohol with one student and I had vomited at night. Then I started drinking every now and then.
After two years it stuck me whether I am becoming an addict like my father. I thought of quitting it, I did not take it for a day. But the next day my feet started towards the liquor shop...
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I started taking beer in 10th class and it continued in college life. Got job and married later drinking continued. Every body in the family tried to stop me from taking alcohol, but I did not stop it. It had affected my job also. I was transferred to a less important job. Relationship at job place also got affected. I used to blame others for the same but now I realize that it was happening because of me. Then I was transferred to Bihar and my problem worsened. I got myself transferred to Delhi with the help of my family. Problems kept increasing as it happens with any addict...
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I am drug free for last 2 years. I started taking drugs in class 10. I do not remember what I used to take. I just remember that my family used to abuse me and had wished that I would have died. I got married while I was still doing drugs. It was when I got my second son that my sister asked me that now I should quit drugs. I was shown many centers but we were looking for a center which could provide the total solution...
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I used to make friends easily; I was not mature enough to choose good or bad friends. I used to sit with a friend in his medical shop, from where I started taking cough syrups. All money used to go in to this addiction. Then I started stealing from my house to procure drugs. In order to procure more money I started working but could not settle down. Then my father got ill, he was to be operated upon, my mother did not allow me to donate my blood on the pretext that my blood was spoiled by drugs. I felt it , but did not leave the drugs. The parents used to abuse me...
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I am taking drugs since 2000. I am addicted to proxyvons. I used to stay out with my friends for nights, used to gamble, steal from. I used to loose all money in drugs and gambling. My father brought me to the center on information from an earlier treated patient. I got the complete program and did my ACG. I am now in regular touch with my counselor and keep coming back to the centre for more strength. I had made huge losses to my family still they love me as I am drug free...
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I started taking drugs in 1987, when I came to know about phencydyl, cough syrup. I enjoyed it. I continued it for ten years. I was good in studies. I got a nice job but drugs continued and I started taking whiskey also. Then the quantity of alcohol intake kept increasing. When I was doing my P.H.D I got detox cpurses, one in ganga ram also for 15 days. I was given some tabs. I stopped everything and got married. After one year due to the problem of anxiety I of my own started tabs prescribed by Ganga ram earlier. Then I got myself thoroughly checked at Ganga Ram hospital again and started taking advised medicine without any relief. I then again started taking the nitrous tabs. Whiskey consumption also started and the condition got deteriorated. I used to take 30 tabs of nitrous and a bottle of whiskey right from the morning...
