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How Can You Help Heroin Addicted Friends?

Alek03/03/2020

What’s the first thing a heroin addict needs? You probably think this is an opening line to a joke or a pun about heroin. But it’s not. It’s just a question whose answer I wish I had known during my…

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About Heroin, Help, Support
Did You Really Try It? How Was It?
My Story

Did You Really Try It? How Was It?

Alek10/04/201927/02/2020

Back home in Poland heroin use isn’t the craze like it is in the United States. I try to be very open about my past, so when I meet people and make friends, and we start talking about it, I…

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Drug Addict

Ask me, I know a Lot Now

Alek13/02/201927/02/2020

What is heroin? Heroin is an illegal, highly addictive opioid made from morphine. It looks like a white or brown powder, or a black, tar-like goo. Heroin can be smoked, injected or snorted. How does heroin work/what does it do?…

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About Heroin, Drug
come back
Drug Addict

A Miracle or a University Degree?

Alek26/01/201925/02/2019

After calling a few places, I selected a rehab facility that would allow me to pay on a sliding scale and a monthly payment plan. It was the only way I could afford to go to rehab since I had…

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Come Back, Rehab
Out of the restaurant, out of her life
Drug AddictMy Story

Out of the Restaurant, Out of her Life

Alek13/01/201925/02/2019

Once I moved in with Katie, life was just one big heroin blur. With little structure other than having to show up for our serving shifts, we were free to smoke and waste our lives away all the time. I…

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Drug Effect, Katie
The Downward Spiral
Drug Addict

The Downward Spiral

Alek19/12/201825/02/2019

The next phase happened so quickly, and I was high so much of the time, that it is a little difficult to remember. My memories of this time are blurry and faded, but I will describe what I do remember.…

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Drug, Life Changing
America LifeDrug AddictMy Story

Come on, Alek, Everyone Does it

Alek06/12/201825/02/2019

So there I was, in a foreign country, with a job I hated, knowing very few people and rarely getting to spend time with the woman I had moved across the ocean to be with. I was at a house…

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America Life, Drug
America LifeMy Story

Always Hungry America and Always Tired Me

Alek19/11/201825/02/2019

I described in my last post how I moved from Poland to the United States a few years ago, giving up everything I knew to be with my American girlfriend Suzette. I had a hard time finding work in my…

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America Life, Suzette
hello from Poland
My Story

Hello from Poland

Alek05/11/201825/02/20192 Comments on Hello from Poland

My name is Aleksander, and I am from Wieliczka, Poland. Most people call me Alek. I moved to the United States from my hometown in Europe a few years ago to be with my American girlfriend at the time, Suzette.…

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America Life, From Poland, Suzette
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