Help save my friends life

I need to raise some money to send my dearest friend to detox.

I am nearly 18 years in recovery. Addiction grabbed me (hard) young. I found a way out that has continued to be an endlessly wonderful source of love and support in my life- a massive community of other recovering souls. We come together regularly to help those in need and share our lives together. It’s a truly beautiful place. Sadly, in my time in recovery, I have seen many people relapse, and some die. I have been to too many funerals. It is the nature of addiction. Those of us who find freedom, and meaningful lives, are the lucky ones. It’s not easy, but it is possible (anyone struggling with addiction is welcome to contact to me).

COVID hit everyone hard, the recovery community especially. Connection is our solution and without that staying clean became tricky for so many. Over lock down many recovering addicts, some with massive amounts of clean time- relapsed. We, like so many others, are rebuilding our community and helping those who lost their way in the disconnection.

My dearest friend, quite possibly the most beautiful person I know, the one I think of when I ask myself “who will know what I should do here?”, the one with the biggest heart, has fallen. She is lost again. She slipped away and Heroin gripped her again. She is desperate.

For many years she has lived a free and normal life. She loves her son more than I can say. Her life was devoted to him, and building her career. Addiction has torn through her family and her life and she’s back to the beginning again. With nothing.

She knows what to do once she is clean. She knows the hope and connection of recovery but right now she is in complete desperation. She stayed at mine this weekend in an attempt to withdraw she got to day 3 and could not get through. She is desperately trying. She needs professional help. A detox. To get the drugs out her system. In a hospital with proper medical attention.

When she couldn’t make it this weekend she broke, she ran back to the drugs to stop the pain then felt desperately suicidal. It is the worst cycle to be in, the shame and guilt of what we become there, a desperation to stop but little power to stick to it. It is the darkest cycle, was certainly the darkest hour of my life.

Please, I could almost beg in this moment, help me save her. I do not want the next funeral to go to to be hers. It would be like losing a sister to me. She has so much to offer, to so many, and I don’t doubt she’ll go on to help many others, again, once she is clean.

There is a shocking shortage of government funded detoxes these days. Near to none. We are going to raise the money to send her to a private one. Anything you have will help, literally every penny. thank you The ones we called today are £12000- if this page can reach any amount towards it and we will try amongst friends and family to gather whatever we can.

She is still close and still trying. I don’t want her to give up.