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Five million

By Brian · New reply May 18, 2013
Journal · 205 replies
Dear members, Yesterday, Inspire reached a milestone: five million posts written by members! Each of these posts, and the 700 million words they contain, are a simple measure of how much we all do to ...

Where does your hope go?

By InkBlot520 · New reply May 7, 2013
Journal · 2 replies
I hope that the weather will be right tomorrow. I have so much to get done. I hope to accomplish it all. I hope I can relax and let myself be for just an instant, when the mind is on roller coaster creaking ...

A new Inspire report in collaboration with Stanford Medical School

By Brian · New reply May 5, 2013
Journal · 84 replies
As many of you know, Inspire has a professional collaboration with the Stanford University School of Medicine. Inspire members have written personal stories for the Stanford Scope column. I am pleased ...

The Inspire Q&A: Inspire talks with Deanna Attai, MD

By John2 · New reply April 16, 2013
Journal · 16 replies
Dear members, We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of Q&A interviews with people who are making contributions to helping patients and caregivers worldwide. The people in this ...

not sure what i found

By ghonker · New reply April 10, 2013
Discussion in Symptoms of drug abuse · 7 replies
My gaughter is a know drug addict . I found some straws cut to about 1.5 inches long (seems to be a bit short for snorting) and some Qtips cut off about the same length maybee a bit shoter. Can any one ...

My 23 yr old son has a drug problem

By Beachgrl47 · New reply April 10, 2013
Discussion in Helping someone who abuses drugs · 9 replies
This is so hard to go through seeing your son abuse some kind of drug. My family went through hell last year discovered he had a herion addiction. We put him in a program treating it with couenseling ...

how to react?

By mellorose66 · New reply April 7, 2013
Discussion in Treatment and rehabilitation · 5 replies
My daughter is back in jail for violation of probation, drug related charges. I have her children. I was becoming very worried for their safety. I am angry with my daughter. I think some sort of punishment ...

Importance of 2nd Opinions

By Pox1 · New reply March 31, 2013
Journal · 54 replies
I have gone through going on 41 years of having to find out the health issues that have plagued my family. When I say my family, I mean myself and 3 daughters. My whole life has been a fight for getting ...

Thought for today!

By jdiagain · New reply March 23, 2013
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Hello Inspire Friends, Here's a quick little quote I saw today that I'm posting for all of us - enjoy! "Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!" Audrey Hepburn Have an Inspired day ...

coronary surprise

By willardps · Posted March 12, 2013
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good news, off subs, bad news, possible mi, angiogram thursday 3/14/2013. Conflicted with gall bladder rtemoval, heart first. Now it,s ab pain to deal, not eating much , a little at end of day,this sucks ...

I miss the daughter I raised

By hurtingfather · New reply March 11, 2013
Journal · 6 replies
As I write this my daughter hates me. She is 22 and suffers from drug addiction and probably mental illness. My wife and I have spent the last 4 years trying to help her. She refuses to admit that anything ...

A Beautiful Prayer for All of Us

By jdiagain · New reply March 4, 2013
Journal · 12 replies
Dear Inspire Friends, Here's a prayer that was posted by a friend on facebook that I'm sending to everyone at Inspire for today and every day: May God give you... For every storm, a rainbow, For every ...

I'm finally back

By Clark-C-C · New reply February 23, 2013
Journal · 3 replies
Well after a few months offline. I'm back now. Hopefully to stay. Got this new iPad mini. Going from an iPod touch 2nd generation to this mini is like climbing off of a tricycle and jumping into the cockpit ...

The Inspire Q&A: Inspire talks with Lindsey Miller

By John2 · New reply February 6, 2013
Journal · 13 replies
We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of Q&A interviews with people who are making contributions to helping patients and caregivers worldwide. The people featured in our Q&A series ...

A poem to inspire hope...

By AJ_2005 · New reply January 27, 2013
Discussion in Helping someone who abuses drugs · 1 reply
This was written for someone that I know who we lost to drugs for a while. He managed to claw his way back after they took everything from him. He is now going on 2 years sober and doing really well ...

We're hiring!

By Walter · Posted January 22, 2013
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Hello everyone, We have a position open with our engineering team at Inspire, and I'd like to share the job description with you in the event you know just the person we're looking for. We found our most ...

Methadone

By Catbird1228 · New reply January 1, 2013
Discussion in Treatment and rehabilitation · 1 reply
My fiancé had 2 sons, both drug addicts. The older one died from an overdose in 2007, the younger is an expert at manipulation...he was arrested and spent 6 months inhouse treatment. That is the only ...

Here we go again!!

By 508help · New reply December 10, 2012
Discussion in Helping someone who abuses drugs · 19 replies
Well unfortunately my son has not learned. Rehab came and went (right out the window) not sure how long he was clean. Kicked him out when he stole my diamond he was homeless and lost his job. He had his ...

RECOVERY & DEPRESSION

By mike607 · New reply November 23, 2012
Journal · 4 replies
AS of oct 1 I been off & out the drug life for 3yrs now. But I battle depression and anxiety daily. Has gotten so bad I don't leave my house plus I suffer from crohns disease. So I stated a new depression ...

My daughter is a heroine/meth addict

By Lulu45 · New reply October 29, 2012
Discussion in My struggle with drugs · 3 replies
the first time I found out my daughter had a drug problem she came to me last january a month after my momma past away and told me she had a heroine addiction. I was niave and thought we could deal with ...

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