You gave me the courage to live again.

I can never thank you enough for everything you've done for me. I feel like you're my big sister, which carries emotions of love mixed with fear. I have this sense of wanting to make you proud of me. You can't imagine what it is like to be enslaved to oxycodone. The fear and loneliness you live with every day. I really believed I was going to die. You gave me the courage to live again. I know I'm not bouncing back as quick as I thought, but I'm positive I never would have had the freedom from that drug if it wasn't for the rapid detox program.

I keep thinking of something you said to me - that every day you get up, get dressed and go to work, and you do it without oxycodone. I think of that every day I wake up. I spent 38 years of my life without any kind of narcotic, so I know I can do this. Besides, I don't want to mess up your one month 95% statistic score.

Thank you again.

Love,

• Opiates: OxyCodone
• Date: January, 2008