Danny

On the day of my intake I stared at the wall behind a well-meaning person doing his job and explaining the rules to me, but I wasn't listening because none of it really mattered. I knew I was going to get loaded again and there was nothing I could do about it.

I half-heartedly began scheming about how I was going to con these people as I had done at every one of these places I had been to before, but I was tired. I was tired of fighting, and I was losing the battle.

The kind staff member showed me my room, and I remember thinking it was pointless to unpack because I knew I would eventually get caught. I had lost everything I ever cared about and destroyed relationships with everyone who had ever cared about me, but all I could think about was getting my next fix. Life was not an accurate word to describe my existence. My mind and my body were completely controlled by drugs and alcohol, and all I could feel was contempt for people who tried to help me. I always felt that their motives were driven by money or some form of self-righteous charity and that there was no way they could understand the pitiful and self-loathing hell of despair and panic that had become my life.

At Solutions of North Texas this was not the case at all, and I quickly learned that my prejudiced assessment of them was dead wrong. The entire staff consists of recovered alcoholics and drug addicts, so the principles of compassion and understanding are paramount.

The rules are strictly enforced and they have no problem turning down money from a non-compliant resident. They only have one mission and it is to help struggling alcoholics and drug addicts find a new way of living and learn how to stay clean and sober in the real world. The transformation my life has undergone is nothing less than miraculous, and it will continue to be my pleasure to assist Solutions in any way I can.

Danny