if you are addicted to roxies,or any pill, please read

[guardian_angel_0]

my boyfriend also has problems with roxies. i found out how bad it was after 6 months of being together. he was taking 6 a day. i tried explaining to him that these small little pills can feel good for the moment but they can ruin everything in your life. he got hooked on them when he was in high school and had no one to help him get off of them, until i came along. i got him to admit to his parents that he was taking them. he realized how disappointed they were with him. one good thing about him is that he actually wants to quit. the problem is his friends. they all do it. therefore it is very tempting for him. he has changed his number and has tried to not associate with any of them, but one of them works with him. he was off of them for two months and i was so proud, and then his so called 'friend' offered them to him and he got started back on them. i asked him to quit and he says he has, but i dont believe him this time....and even if he did, who says he wont do it again?
i hate that this drug is so easy to get. i hate that people are ruinning thier lives and others over it. i wish that people with this addiction would just sit down and write a list of everything they have lost due to this.(girlfriends, wives, jobs, homes, cars) everything you have worked for is now being flushed down the toilet. every dime you have is going towards something that is taking your life away. why would you wanna do that to yourself?
say you are in the same situation as my boyfriend. you take 6 pills a day.....thats $72 or more a day, $504 a week, $2,016 a month, $24,192 a year. now think about the things you wanted to buy that year. maybe you wanted a tv, or maybe a car, or put down money for a house, maybe you wanted to go to a football game, or take your family out, or go on vacation, explore the world, or even just save the money. thats a lot of money gone....and what do you have to show for it....your over-used straw, the disappointment you have in yourself, the pain you still feel even though you just took one. or maybe your addiction? fight back. control it, dont let it control you. read this everyday if you have to.

[dominosarah]

The problem isnt his so called "friends".  Its your boyfriend.  When HE wants to really get clean he will.  I am VERY aware of what my using did to myself and my family.

I too wish it was that easy...........sara

[Fergman]

I was a bix roxi fan myself.  Just loved crushing them up and snorting them.  The energy and glow one gets from them is a strong payoff.  I, too, lost just about everything.  I think in Florida it's easy to get the roxi's.  Man, they are strong.  It's a very strong withdrawal if he goes cold turkey.  Try to get him on Suboxone.  That's a drug that will ease the withdrawal and, hopefully, ease the cravings.  Those little blue pills will surely bring him down.  It did me, and I don't know if life can ever return to what it was again.  You may have to separate yourself from him until he gets some time of sobriety under his belt.

[cleanmom]

Sounds like something my father would say, fortunately he has never been an addict to anything......on an intellectual level we are all very aware of everything you just said, not to worry.

[LIZZIE LOU]

being an addict does not mean that one is stupid.  every person here KNOWS how addiction has affected not only their lives...but also the lives of those around them.

if only it was that easy............................................