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Question by cbrenee54: I’m a recovering addict wanting to get undergrad degree at univ in Virginia. Seeking a scholarship, clean 1yr
I am graduating a faith-based recovery program.Been here over a year. Have a student loan in default, so can’t get financial aid for approx 1 yr. Have Associate in Mental Health, want to get degree in SocialWork/Relegious Studies. I am very involved in Narcotics Anonymous and am Support Staff employee here at the Rescue Mission in Roanoke, Va. I Can’t find scholarship money for recovering addicts who want to improve their lives by getting a better education to help them become productive members of society. I want this degree to help enable me to serve other recovering, homeless, people. My long-term goal is to get a masters degree in Theology to become a pastoral counselor. I’m in dire need of a scholarship because I must pay consistently for a year to get a student loan out of “default status”. I reside in Roanoke, Va. I had a significant amount of clean time (1990-1998),(2002-2004)

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Answer by killroy
i am still trying to figure out what being a recovering addict has to do with wanting to get a degree…….you seem smart why must you always place that tag on yourself?

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11 years ago i tried to help a long time childhood friend that was in a rut back in our home town…we grew up together so i felt that i could help him…i bought him a plane ticket from michigan to arizona so that he could get a teaching position as they were plentiful there…i lent/sent him money to get things settled and so he could get a place to stay when he got in arizona…the very first night he was in arizona he stole my car…i didn’t see him until four days later when he showed up at my door looking like total crap and without my car…to find out, he had gone on a crack and meth binge blowing all of the money he had and the money i had left him…he had “sold” my car to get more drugs…the car was recovered wrecked and with total engine damage…me and a friend took him to a rehab place where he could live…he would have to work and pay them from what he made and go through all their programs…well, in no time he got kicked out of that for not following the rules (not getting high)…i only heard from him a few times when he would try and con money out of me and ask me for a ride…now 11 years later he finally contacts me telling me he has his life together and has been clean for 7 years and is getting married, is getting his masters degree, has a 4 bedroom house, and 2 cars…he has apologized and said he needed to make “amends” with me…well, i am very happy he has his life together…this person basicaly ripped me off and cost me thousands of dollars…since that time i have went on disability due to neck and back injuries and now live a very meager life in an efficiency apartment with no car and absolutely no extra money to even be able to go to a movie once a month…is sorry supposed to make up what he did to me?…i am happy for him, but should he not pay me back the money that his “drugging” cost me?…i forgive him, but how is just saying sorry supposed to make everything right?…would it be wrong for me to ask that he pay me back, especialy when he is doing so well and i am not now?…thank you for any advice you can give me…and i don’t need to hear how stupid i was for helping him when he had “used” my generosity before!…thanks, i already know that!…lol…

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believe me when i say that i take all the answers i get on here to heart…it has been said that i am bitter…well, i guess i am in a way…when i helped him fly out he was supposed to have been sober…he was supposed to pay me back when he got “things going” in his “new” life…i try to forgive and i can forget about payback on a plane ticket bought and money i lent him…should i be such a big man and not expect payback on my car he wrecked and the money i had to spend on getting a new engine after fixing the body damage?…is the person that got hurt due to someone being on drugs always supposed to be the “bigger” person?…i do not ask for help from anyone, but with my situation now, i could sure use help from someone that i had helped many times in the past…should payback on a vehicle he wrecked and ruined be considered “soliciting” help from him?

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We have a far infrared sauna which we purchased for health reasons. This type of sauna is used for detoxification, so it is built with bare wood (hemlock in our case) that has never been treated with any chemical. Two years ago, contractors doing a rehab job in our house made a number of mistakes that led to very old, very fine coal soot from up in a ceiling to be pumped throughout every room in our house. Every surface was lightly coated with coal soot. The damage was just like smoke damage. Serv-Pro cleaned up everything except the sauna. I couldn’t get them or anyone else to touch it. They don’t want to deal with the electric parts and they don’t know how to remove the soot without using chemical-laden sponges. I have no idea how to completely remove that soot, nor do I know who I might hire to do it correctly. We don’t want to sit in there and have soot beamed into our bodies! Thanks for your ideas!
I’d be very concerned about putting any dangerous chemicals on the wood, considering any residue would be heated up and we’d likely breathe it in. It’s an enclosed environment.

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I’ll try to make it short…My husband got terminated from a job 7 months ago due to failing a drug test (marijuana). This was a personal family matter that we wanted to deal with privately, it was not something my husband was proud of. He had to go through drug rehab to get his CDL license back, we paid the fine and he is now looking for a steady good paying full time job, he delivers pizza right now which surprisingly pays very well with tips. Anyways, instead of telling my dad he was fired I told him that he just decided to look for a better paying job. My dad snooped around (he knows alot of people) and found out the truth a few months ago. I just found out last night that knows what really happened.

Part of me is upset with him because he took it upon himself to snoop around on us. I am a grown woman with a family and would like our privacy respected, especially in a situation this disappointing and embarrassing. I understand I shouldn’t have lied to my dad, but there are certain things that should be kept between a husband and wife….not the rest of the family.

I want to just keep going on as if I don’t know that he knows. Mainly because my sister promised him she wouldn’t tell me and she did so he will know she broke her promise to him. I absolutely hate secrets but again, it’s a private family matter that we wanted to deal with ourselves.

What would you do in this situation?
He found out back in November so it’s been almost 4 months that he has known. He still randomly asks me why my husband quit, even though I’ve told him the same thing for the past 7 months. I guess to see if I’ll tell him the truth.

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I quit smoking weed in March. I should mention Im a good person– Im on the deans list, I work full time while going to school, I volunteer, etc. Im quite the girly girl,not someone you would think smokes..I had a little secret addiction going on though. I smoked for a while ‘(years) and I just got to the point where I felt like –I am too smart for this, ya know? I wanted to spend less money and have healthier lungs, so I stopped,cold turkey. That was 8 months ago and I havent smoked a single thing since.
I was just in Amsterdam over the weekend and one thing after another went wrong from losing my keys to my wallet getting left in the cab, and tripping- to messing up both of my feet (which are now swollen,bruised,and hurts soo bad to walk on them)

anyway…I was having a rather unfortunate night and my roommate asked if I wanted to get a joint. She doesnt really smoke and she knows I quit but we did anyway and I was disappointed bc 1) she really felt it 2) I didnt feel a thing, except that I regretted breaking my sobriety.

Can someone help me look at this situation in a positive light? I can playing it over and over again in my head and Im disappointed in myself. Its not like I want to start smoking again, Im just mad that I broke 8 whole months.Can you give me a new perspective?

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I used to tkae alot of pills when i was younger when out partying,sniff some coke and smoke large amounts of weed. I went through a very low depressive stage. I then met a great guy who took my mind off it all completely,for about 10 months i touched nothing and then fell back into a small circle i used to go out with… For about 4 months now i have been sniffing coke behind my partners back, and the guilt is killing me, my partner works nights so i am often left alone at home, so i then meet somebody to do a bit of coke with, at the time it seems a great idea, a small buzz, but then once i have done it, i feel like my old depressed self again, and my partner doesnt deserve to be lied to, i would love to come clean, but i am embarresed of being seen as weak, as my partner is so strong. I am a very easily led person… and need alot of help… so please any suggestions you can give will help… feel free to let rip at me because, i know what i am doing is wrong, but the drugs just seem to pull me.. I cant go to rehab, encase i loose my job, i have a good job and very career minded… its like im living a secret life????

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I have been to several rehabs- I know what needs to be done, but I can’t seem to follow through with anything. Please help me if you know of any websites, etc. to support my recovery. Any advice is welcome. I am to the point where I can’t live with the drugs, and I can’t live without them. HELP!!!!

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