“Only
as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as
I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.”
Client Success Stories
Kristina
The low
point in my life was losing custody of my 18 month old twins. I had a three
year daily meth habit. I left my twins with a babysitter who in turn left them
alone. They were then placed into the foster care system. My addicted brain
told me it would be a good idea to kidnap them and flee, so I did. The result
was an arrest and conviction on a Child Deprivation charge. I was sentenced to
two and a half years in prison. Upon release I proceeded to write a bad check
to supplement my drug and gambling addictions. This resulted in being placed on
five years probation.
I
discovered Bristlecone when searching for a treatment facility. Since I started
treatment in August of 2008 I have remained clean, sober and gambling free. I
have maintained full-time employment; enrolled at TruckeeMeadowsCommunity College as a
full-time student; am buying a home on the lease option plan; and have
eliminated toxic relationships from my life. My goal is to be a good role model
for my sons, grandson, and all black women in the community.
Scott
I started at an early age with
"harmless" marijuana and eventually started looking for a bigger,
better high. I tried cocaine at age16 and fell in love. This became such a
problem in my life that I was able to quit for a short period. Then I went back to marijuana. Soon after, I tried meth and
thought it was a god send. This led to jail and prison and before I knew it, I
was caught up in a series of life changing events, and an addiction problem I
thought I would never get over.
See, the thought that I may have had a problem, or an
addictive personality never occurred to me until my second term in prison,
but by then I felt that I was such a screw up that I may as well keep keeping using. It was the loss of my father, while incarcerated that sent me over the
edge. We all grieve in our own ways, and my "cure-all" was drugs.
After my release, I went nuts and this time worse than
ever, I was doing everything all at once and found myself in the grips of a
terrible heroin addiction. Before I knew it, I was in trouble with the law
again. I knew that life can be good without drugs and I really wanted to be
sober. I know first-hand that eventually drugs will bring anyone to the very
depths of hell.
After previously trying several rehabilitation programs (none
of which worked), I decided to try a place I heard many good things about. I
went to Bristlecone Family Resources. It was quite unlike the other programs I
had tried and everyone on the staff was caring and concerned. The classes
taught me so much about addiction, about drugs and their harmful effects. Bristlecone
taught me that I was a person who had made mistakes, they showed me that I am a
valuable person, with potential.
After graduating from the program and applying what I learned
in Bristlecone, I am leading a positive sober life; a life better than I had
known before, a healthy, drug free lifestyle. I went back to college in March
to pursue my goals and life is good. Thank you Bristlecone for saving my
life.
