Plenty to be hopeful for. Check out my thread Addiction Recovery is Possible by clicking on my name and finding it.
There is one caveat however, the addict needs to see the light and start to believe there is a better tomorrow other than the day they find themself in today. I always knew there was a brighter tomorrow however this diminished towards the end of my addiction. It became so bad that I just thought that this life was just meant to be this way. Towards the very end I literally reached the point of exhaustion when I couldn’t function any more and realised that there was a better tomorrow. What this road looked like however was completelty unchartered but I had to start.
It started with Today is a Day I won’t do Cocaine. As it happened the secondary motto was I don’t want to Drink any more. These days turned into weeks and into months (end of this month would be 10 months). Along this timeline good things managed to happen, magic was being felt, I was interacting with society once more, I was engaged in conversation, I was now in the moment, nature had its way of talking to me, love was being seen where it had always been but I failed to see it. All sounds very fluffy but giving up cocaine and alcohol made me feel alive again without the shackles, I was free, free to achieve whatever I wanted too