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Show 5 Page April 7, isjEditor: 19c brooksinfowest.com Brooks Shelton Recovering From Alcohol Addiction is Possible With Help By Marianne Nelson Special to the Sun The only way I know how an addiction is by own experience as an using my example of an alcoholic. Not everyone realizes there are different stages to addictions and that addictions do not start fullblown. All it takes is a planting of one seed, then it grows rapidly to an overcoming thorn bush that will consume your whole mind, body, and soul. To start the world of pain, all it takes is one drink, a line of cocaine, or one hit off a marijuana joint, but it is your choice whether to nourish the thorn bush or not. The planting of the seed is of course peer pressure, we have all dealt with it one time or another. Whether it is to wear certain clothes or do certain things, it is one thing we to describe have all been a part of. At first it is easy to say "No" or just ignore it, but after a while you want to be in on the fun also. You have a few drinks, or cough up some smoke. When the buzz sets in, you think to yourself this isn't so bad. I can do this every once in a while to have a little fun, no one will ever know. The bush starts to grow. Pretty soon the parties are ever You find yourself weekend. sluffing school for a smoke break. You no longer care what everyone else thinks, including you parents. All you want is for every adult to leave you alone so you can have you fun and be with friends who supyour posedly like you for who you are. friends will Those ditch you at the first sign of trouble. Ask me how I know, I ed was there doing the same j things. Soon the bush is waist high, you can still walk away at any time. The parties aren't just on weekends anymore. They become an every other i day activity. You're lying to your parents telling them you're really involved with school, listing every activity you can think to explain why you are staying out late on weeknights. As time passes the alcohol has a hidden spot .in your room. You're finding if you can't go out with your friends you have a few drinks on your own. Boyfriend or girlfriends SUN NEWS SERVICES start breaking up with you , and sily become DSS. because of your drinking, but it dictions. Dixie College student tells only gets worse with your her story of how weekend drinking grief. became her addiction. As the bush gets bigger and the thorns dig deeper, you realtry to stop on your own, but ize you have a problem. You cold sweats in the night do not if seem to be letting up anytime soon You have pushed your family so far away you find it difficult to ask for help, even in the smallest form. I promise recovering from addiction is probably one of the hardest things anyone has ever had to do. Addictions have destroyed families and they not only hurt you as an individual, they hurt everyone who cares for you Though I can't make the right decisions for you, and can't be there to hold you hand, I hope and pray maybe even one person who reads this will think twice and say that kind of life isn't for me. There is always help and someone who is Wllhng to hs ten If you know someone who has a problem don-- t hesitate to be there for him or her, be their inspiration, Is the OHl Y place you can see talents together In one night! these three great The Centrum Arena FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 7 P.F1 CERTRUn ARENA, SUU ADULTS $23M 19 435 - 586 -7872 Office Ticket Centrum AIISmitiiTix outlets 1 - 800 - 888 -TIXX Its one in a million, STUDENTS - MU i. Tnsoredhv .j- KONY radio KSSD radio dr. cra,g MfliyPertlitry blacks St George d.d.s. 13S .- - if' ... so is she! I; McArthur Jewelers Downtown & Red Cliffs Mall i5S59B7 ifiJim' |