Sankalpa

My name is Damien Naughton.  I started taken soft drugs when I was 19.  I started smoking hash with some friends.  We did drink as well.  I happened to get a claim and started to get tablets call G.G’s and DF118’s.  I started taking them all the time then I heard of ‘’E’’.  At the time I thought they were the best thing since I was born and they made me feel like I was getting the love I never got at home, then I started taken NAPP’s.  I got addicted to them for 2 years and ended up in Peamount Hospital.  I was there for up to 3 months because they thought I had TB.  What happened was the tablets where getting caught in my lungs and so I was let out and had to go to Pearse St.  And within 6 months I was off everything.

Ten months later I was after moving to Drumcondra and there was a lot of temptation in my way, but I stayed drug-free for at least 9 years.  Then I caught my partner messing with gear and her sister lived in the flat under us.  I fell back into it again and ended up banging it out and got caught three times and got a 3 year bender.  After that I got on the Wellmount Clinic and after 3 years got a job as a security officer and after 3 years lost it.

I heard about Sankalpa.  I thought about it and I knew I had to be drug free, like no gear is to be in my urine so I started to get clean, then found out my girlfriend was taking crack behind my back, so it made me stronger, because the kids were taken off her, but I was not living there.  I joined Sankalpa because my doctor said it would be good for me.  It was hard at the start but meeting new people that had the same problems as I had.  I used to just stay in all the time and I was getting out, learning more, I was in much better form and it’s helping keeping me clean and my kids are proud of me. I know Sankalpa will support me in reducing my methadone.