Киевская Христианская Церковь

My name is Konstantin (Kostya) and I want to share with you how I quit drugs.

I grew in a normal family. I had mom and stepfather. Studied in a regular school. Had friends like most other people. And guess what – I became the slave of the drugs when I was a kid. First time I injected it when I was 13.

At the age of 16, I was addicted to heroin and tried to quit through the therapy in narco-dispensary.

At the age of 17 I was convicted and got my first sentence. I was in prison three times and went through anti-drugs therapy more than 30 (!) times.

3 times I was in coma and was attached to the breathing machine: one time because of alcohol overdose and twice because of the sleeping pills overdose mixed with alcohol.

Parents provided all sorts of therapy for me – coding, medicating with special ampoule, “torpedoing”.

Every time they medicated me, I had to sign the paper stating that if I will die because of medication reaction with alcohol, I am responsible for my own death. This had not stop me either – I loved alcohol so much, that I was not afraid of death. Every time I recessed to heavy drinking and drugs.

Psychologists and medics tried to help me with no progress whatsoever.

In 2014 I was in complete despair and without hope. For a month I was drinking and using drugs, twice I had epilepsy attacks. I begged my parents to take me to the narco-dispensary.

20 years of persisting in alcohol and drug addiction brought me to the point when I could not stand it anymore, but I could not quit either. This was the dead-end.

Those days I met a person who offered me to go to the rehab center and I went immediately from the hospital, I did not even visit home before that.

After the course of rehabilitation, I have the freedom from drugs, alcohol and cigarettes

God gave me wonderful wife, and then I have a job. We have a child. My relationships with my mom and all relatives became good.

Everything destroyed by the drug during 20 years, God have restored.

The most important is that I learned to overcome the difficulties of life in a right way, without using the bottle or the drug.