i was a drug addict for over 7 years. It started because i messed my back up while i was in the army and the army docs pushed opiate painkillers on me to keep going so to speak and it quickly turned into an addiction. to make a long story short i lost everything and everyone in my life over this an i woke up one morning and realized i quite literally had nothing in my life but drugs. It took me 3 months to figure out what i was going to do either i was going to commit suicide or get help. I really felt i was past getting help but suicide meant permanent death there is no coming back from that. So i quit cold turkey at first made it 12 days before i went to the hospital and asked for help luckily for me there is a drug treatment program through the Va hospital an i got into detox that night then after the withdrawals subsided i went into a 90 treatment facility and after that got into a outpatient drug treatment program at the same Va hospital. I am on a medication called suboxone which some people say is a crutch but they can got eat a dick. This has saved my life and not only that has given it back to me.

It's only been straight edge for two years, cause before that it was jsut being a law biding citizen.

But I've always been straight edge. No particular incident, just alcohol and drugs never appealed to me.