#EndAddiction

[andrewbasile]

In the moment, it might feel like control. Like escape. Like clarity. But addiction doesn’t start with chaos—it starts with a choice. And then another. This haunting image captures the stark contrast between confidence and consequence. No one plans to lose themselves to addiction.

[workforothershappiness]

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United We Stand: Saying NO to Drugs Across#weforEducation

#InternationalDayAgainstDrugAbuse

We for Education Welfare Society spread the message of a drug-free future far and wide! Our teams across various locations raised awareness about the dangers of drugs and empowered communities to choose a healthier path.

Join us in the fight against addiction! Share this post and let's keep the momentum going.

[ngosociety]

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we4societyUnited We Stand: Saying NO to Drugs Across#weforEducation #InternationalDayAgainstDrugAbuse We for Education Welfare Society spread the message of a drug-free future far and wide! Our teams across various locations raised awareness about the dangers of drugs and empowered communities to choose a healthier path. Join us in the fight against addiction! Share this post and let's keep the momentum going.

[enchantingbreadpatrol]

Our Message Makes Headlines! #InternationalDayAgainstDrugAbuse

We for Education Welfare Society's fight against drugs gets a powerful boost! Huge thanks to @dainikjanwani and @dainikjagrannews for featuring our successful rally in support of the #InternationalDayAgainstDrugAbuse.

Spreading awareness is key to creating a drug-free future. Your support fuels our mission! Let's keep the momentum going.

[avongina]

Today At the Movies was Hidden Figures. Great message to work with our God-given gifts & talents, no matter what race, walk of life, or male or female. I also loved the message of being first in the family to have a true relationship with Jesus, end divorce, end alcohol & drug addiction, be a good example of the Lord at home, work, & community. God wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. 1 Timothy 2:4 #equality #loved #lovedbygod #grace #goodcharacter #dotherightthing #endaddiction #stopdivorce #integrity (at Eastside Christian Church) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9NLI-FDNHF/?igshid=su3vzvyd9t0j

[harryetaylor123]

Anyone struggling with addiction - its usually lack of real dopamine - go for cold cold showers and warm mix the temperatures, try swimming, or connecting with nature/ or try wake up mediate, prayer, kegel exercises , find a thrilling thing and use all your energy for that #endaddiction #addictionrecovery #pornaddiction #drugaddiction #betterlife https://www.instagram.com/p/B5HNXVSn-1P/?igshid=7xdd8rxrzej9

[mediumvioletevans-blog]

Inheriting traits that can cause much shame and embarrassment can end with you! 🙌 #imagineaworldlikethat #endaddiction #shedtheshame https://www.instagram.com/p/B0LOsY3pggI/?igshid=1hkt8dzvw1y99

[andrewbasile]

Addiction doesn’t always look like the stereotypes. It hides behind filters, smiles, and moments of rebellion. This image captures the painful duality—raw self-expression intertwined with self-destruction. At Brighter Start Health, we see through the surface to the struggle underneath. Addiction is real. So is recovery.You’re not too far gone. You’re not alone. And you don’t have to do this without help.

[workforothershappiness]

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A post shared by We For Education Welfare Society (@we4society)

United We Stand: Saying NO to Drugs Across#weforEducation

#InternationalDayAgainstDrugAbuse

We for Education Welfare Society spread the message of a drug-free future far and wide! Our teams across various locations raised awareness about the dangers of drugs and empowered communities to choose a healthier path.

Join us in the fight against addiction! Share this post and let's keep the momentum going.

[ngosociety]

We for Education Welfare Society spread the message of a drug-free future far and wide! Our teams across various locations raised awareness about the dangers of drugs and empowered communities to choose a healthier path.

Join us in the fight against addiction! Share this post and let's keep the momentum going.

[enchantingbreadpatrol]

United We Stand: Saying NO to Drugs Across#weforEducation

#InternationalDayAgainstDrugAbuse

We for Education Welfare Society spread the message of a drug-free future far and wide! Our teams across various locations raised awareness about the dangers of drugs and empowered communities to choose a healthier path.

Join us in the fight against addiction! Share this post and let's keep the momentum going.

[overprescribedohio-blog]

“Take As Needed”

When I was fifteen years old, I suffered a fracture to my ankle during soccer practice. As I was playing goalie, I dove to block a shot but my cleat got stuck in the mud. I heard my ankle break and felt immense pain as I fell onto the grass. As the adrenaline rushed through my blood, I lost sensation in my entire leg. With tears streaming down my face, my coach lifted me from the ground and carried me a football field’s length back to the parking lot. My ankle was limp and flopped up and down with each step he took. When my dad arrived, he immediately took me to the emergency room. In the car I could feel each turn and bump in the road as I knew my ankle was definitely broken. 

When I arrived in the emergency room, I was immediately given a dose of Oxycontin to manage the pain before I had even seen a doctor. I was wheeled back for an X-ray, but the nurse had to cut my shoe and shin guard from my foot. When the images returned, a doctor came in the room to explain to my parents that “they had never seen a break this severe” and that I needed to be sent to the main campus downtown for emergency surgery on my growth plate. 

The following morning I was taken into surgery to have a screw placed into my ankle. I spent the next three days in the hospital, although I barely remember any of my time spent there. I was given hourly doses of pain killers to manage my pain which left me feeling disoriented and sleepy. When I was finally able to head home, I was given a prescription of Vicodin with the instructions “take as needed.”

I spent the next 5 months immobilized in a cast as I was forced into using a wheelchair since I suffered damage to my nerves and blood vessels. My foot would turn black when I would stand to use crutches and I woke up every morning in tears from pain. I took Vicodin consistently 2-3 times daily to help with pain, but the prescription also helped to calm me. I had a long road ahead of me and to this day I still haven’t completely recovered as I still suffer from sharp pain and cramps in my ankle. But, this was the first time in my life that I had truly experienced the meaning of depression. 

At fifteen years old, I was on the verge of addiction as I woke up each morning wanting to take the pain killers to take the physical and emotional pain away. Throughout those months, my doctor continued refilling my prescriptions, after all it said “take as needed” and I felt I still needed it. Luckily, my story is different unlike the stories of millions of other teens and adults. My parents and friends gave me unconditional support and my parents slowly stopped letting me take the drugs, even when I’d beg for them. This typically isn’t the case for most people. Most people don’t have someone to manage their dosages and support them through depressing times in their life. That’s why I’ve created this blog. 

I want to bring awareness to the social epidemic that is striking America. The use of narcotics needs to be limited. In the beginning, I did need the pain medicine to help manage the pain, but not several months after the surgery. We need to find other methods of pain management and lessen the increasing rates of opioid addiction because of over-prescriptions. 

[heavymetalkitten]

this was relatable at one point in my life. This is powerful

I did not write this. But its pretty powerful! I am not an addict. But try and love one, and then see if you can look me square in the eyes and tell me that you didn’t get addicted to trying to fix them. If you’re lucky, they recover. If you’re really lucky, you recover, too. Loving a drug addict can and will consume your every thought. Watching their physical deterioration and emotional detachment to everything will make you the most tired insomniac alive. You will stand in the doorway of their bedroom and plead with them that you “just want them back.” If you watch the person you love disappear right in front of your eyes long enough, you will start to dissolve too. Those not directly affected won’t be able to understand why you are so focused on your loved one’s well-being, especially since, during the times of your family member’s active addiction, they won’t seem so concerned with their own. Don’t become angry with these people. They do not understand. They are lucky to not understand. You’ll catch yourself wishing that you didn’t understand, either. “What if you had to wake up every day and wonder if today was the day your family member was going to die?” will become a popular, not-so-rhetorical question. Drug addiction has the largest ripple effect that I have ever witnessed firsthand. It causes parents to outlive their children. It causes jail time and homelessness. It causes sisters to mourn their siblings. It causes nieces to never meet their aunts. It causes an absence before the exit. You will see your loved one walking and talking, but the truth is, you will lose them far before they actually succumb to their demons; which, if they don’t find recovery, is inevitable. Drug addiction causes families to come to fear a ringing phone or a knock on the door. Drug addiction causes bedrooms and social media sites to become memorials. It causes the “yesterdays” to outnumber the “tomorrows.” It causes things to break; like the law, trust and homes. Drug addiction causes statistics to rise and knees to fall, as praying seems like the only thing left to do sometimes. People have a way of pigeonholing those who suffer from addiction. They call them “trash,” “junkies” or “criminals,” which is hardly ever the truth. Addiction is an illness. Addicts have families and aspirations. You will learn that drug addiction doesn’t discriminate. It doesn’t care if the addict came from a loving home or a broken family. Drug addiction doesn’t care if you are religious. Drug addiction doesn’t care if you are a straight-A student or a drop-out. Drug addiction doesn’t care what ethnicity you are. Drug addiction will show you that one decision and one lapse in judgment can alter the course of an entire life. Drug addiction doesn’t care. Period. But you care. You will learn to hate the drug but love the addict. You will begin to accept that you need to separate who the person once was with who they are now. It is not the person who uses, but the addict. It is not the person who steals to support their habit, but the addict. It is not the person who spews obscenities at their family, but the addict. It is not the person who lies, but the addict. And yet, sadly… it is not the addict who dies, but the person.

[alisonbristow]

Consciousness is to the brain, what the sky is to the clouds. It is beyond imperative that we, as a collective body, learn to make the brain and it's cohorts - the 5 physical senses - our servant and not our master. Rocked by the documentary on Whitney Houston and reflecting on the epidemic of addiction in our country and world. And knowing that few of us are totally free. Even if we're not addicted to a substance or behavior pattern, the great majority of us are addicted to our own peculiar brand of hypnotic trance-like repetitive thoughts, as so well articulated in recent books such as The Untethered Soul and Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself. The trend toward mindfulness and meditation are hopeful ones. Daily in the work that I do, I see people from all walks of life (and I really mean all - skid row homeless to high powered professionals) catch moments of liberation from the monkey mind and drop into consciousness where the true essence or Self resides. The experimental data I've amassed over a decade is enough to convince me that this place resides in everyone and that with determination and practice, liberation is always possible. And perhaps due to those close to me that I couldn't save at the time, I would all but give my life to help even one person find their freedom and become the nucleus for good that they are meant to be with its rippling effect on all the lives they touch. That's why everyday, I do my best to put on my own oxygen mask first with tools of self care and self reflection that keep me growing and transforming even when it's super uncomfortable - excruciating even at times. The deepest work is done alone and gives joy, substance, and resilience to the outer details of life. When one is helped, all are helped. #freedom #liberation #moksha #embodyouressence #endaddiction #helponehelpall

[riseaboveaddictions-blog]

Surround yourself with people who want better for themselves and you. #beataddiction #endaddiction #soberminds (at Massachusetts)

[andrewbasile]

Recovery isn’t just about breaking habits—it’s about rebuilding hope. Drug rehab offers structure, compassion, and a path forward. With the right support, healing becomes possible—and a new chapter begins.