@Christop 4 June 2020 edited more from that month

Kratom saved my life.

drug addiction.. it sucks, it breaks, it destroys lives. I lived with it for a little over a decade. Started in high school with just good fun. Didn't even know at the time what it would turn into. We had a friend that had Ritalin and stopped taking them but kept getting his scrips. I would he awake for days at a time my senior year. Drinking a bottle of vodka with my friend Jimmy at lunch. Good times. But I soon discovered painkillers. They were wonderfull. Made me feel happy (my parents had just gotten divorced) so they made me not care. I was in a band and deeply wanted to be a rockstar. So I lived what I thought the life was. Sex, drugs, and drugs. Is what it turned into. After years of this and becoming fully dependent on painkillers and burning every bridge I had I became homeless at 21. I left my small little town in search of a new start. I went up and down all over California. Along that journey I had discover heroin. I almost died multiple times from the drug and thing to do with the drug. I was jumped. Beaten very badly over half of of weed. (Dont go to Vegas if your homeless) i continued the transiet life for another 5 or 6 years. Finding temporary couches of temporary "friends" and homless shelters until I was kicked out for being high or causing a ruckus. I eventually discovered a place in Oregon. Not a huge city but not to small. I found a shelter and immediatly started asking people if they new where to find anything. Someone told me to walk down to the store and get some Kratom. I was not going to. But a day passed and I was starting to withdraw. So I went. It tastes like shit. And I didn't get high. BUT it made me not in pain. So I kept drinking it. I felt clear headed. no need to want to go out a stick a needle in my arm. A few months pass. I get a job. For first time in awile. And I keep it. I was introduced to the pastor daughter and belive it or not we started dating. More months pass and I get a better job and I have a stable room I'm renting and living with my gf. Some more time passes. ( to save writing time) I am now married to that pastors daughter and we bought our first house and I now have a 2 year old son at the time of writing this. I haven't touched anything but Kratom for the past 4 years. I go to work everyday. I'm never late and I'm a functioning member of society. I've never been happier in my life. I have my family back. And my own family. And I belive it is all thanks to Kratom and a little will power. My wife and I are saving up so our son can have the life neither one of us had. AND HOPEFULLY GO TO COLLEGE.. so expensive lol.. Thanks for reading and if your in a hopeless situation. There's always hope. (Sorry I'm not a professional writer there will be typos and spelling errors)