A queer person in a major city describes falling into methamphetamine addiction, calling it a hidden hell that doesn't discriminate. After years of cycling through recovery attempts and 12-step meetings, they finally found sustained sobriety.
The moment that I first experimented with this drug in particular, I knew that I had, I had gone to hell. Like, I— do you know what I'm saying? Like, it pulls you in, it grabs you, and it drags you down. It is so insidious. It does not discriminate. And also, like, um, a queer person, um, in a big city where this stuff is just like, it lives in the shadows. Yeah. And it is Right in front of you at all. You have to go to like CMA, you have to get into 12-step, like you have to run for your life. And so I right away, like right away, I was like, I don't know what CMA is, but I need to go there. So I started going and I, you know, I was back and forth with it for, you know, probably a couple of years until I was really able to like put some time under my belt. Right. Um, with sobriety.
