Step 2 – Quit looking for an easy way out!
May 20, 2009
- There is no simple magical cure. There is no synthetic drugs or substances that can pull you out. Methadone is not a cure.
- Hospitals can’t help you on a permanent basis. Just ask anyone who has been there. Out of the hospital—right back to the spike. You can go back a hundred times and you would still be the same.
- No clinic can help you permanently—and deep in your heart you know it. Maybe you won’t admit it, but it’s true. How many times have you been to a clinic already? Right back to the stuff every time.
- No doctor, psychiatrist or hypnotist can cure you! A doctor can pacify you with some pills; a psychiatrist can tell you why are an addict—but they cannot cure you!
- Cold turkey is the best and quickest way to start a cure. Cutting down on your supply with medication is just an excuse to drag out your habit! Cold turkey never killed anybody. It’s the way in jail—it’s the best.
- You must quit smoking! No addict can be permanently cured until he is off cigarettes for good. If you can’t quit your little habits, how are you going to quit your big habits? Furfural is a toxin in tobacco that will drive you back to your needle! What’s the difference if you are addicted to tobacco or drugs—they are both habits of the mind! I dare anyone in the world to prove to me an addict is really cured if he is still smoking!
- Don’t ask for help just to please someone else. You are fooling yourself if you look for help just to keep a wife, mother, or friend happy. You’ve got to want to help yourself.
- You can’t be cured in three weeks. So forget about a job and your future for a while. You have to get away from you so-called friends and from your connections. Out of the city, out of the community, out of the street. You don’t need a job right now—you couldn’t keep it anyway.
- Don’t expect to be trusted or babied. You can’t fool experienced people in the field of narcotics, so quit working angles. You may be sick—but you’re not a little baby. If you can run around making connections, you can work for a cure. GET UP OFF YOUR REAR AND QUIT ACTING LIKE A CRIPPLED BABY!
Continue Reading > Step 3 > Give yourself over to God
One Way, by David Wilkerson, Regal Books, 1972
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