Trevor Davidson here. I’m 23- from a small town in Michigan and I’ve been sober since May 17th 2018.
I’ve been fighting addiction since the age of 15. Everything started out by smoking a little bit. Never thought it was a big deal always said it wouldn’t lead to anything else. Well unfortunately, I was extremely wrong. After a few months of that it lead to pills – ultrams. Which then lead to small amounts of Cocaine by the age of 16, And the deal breaker of that year, I discovered Xanax.
Unfortunately, that is when addiction really took off. Xanax made me have zero worries, I had no more depression, and I thought I was on top of the world. I thought life was so much easier on benzos. I started selling marijuana to help me fund my pills and also to smoke whenever I wanted. By age 17, my first son was born. Didn’t wanna get a job. Still wanted to take Xanax and I was selling marijuana to help support him.
3 days after my 17th birthday knock on my door… 2 cops warrant for my arrest, delivering and manufacturing. Undercover cop set me up for my choice of selling marijuana. For all that I ended up sitting in jail for a total of almost a year and got a felony on my record.
By the age of 19, I was a felon, hard to get a job, me and my sons mother split up, I did not care about life anymore. I moved to a big city, called Lansing, here in Michigan. Which is when the cocaine really took over and then came the heroin. I’ve never experienced such a great feeling and anything that ever took away all the pain and suffering I was going through. Just like the Xanax it melted everything away. Also in Lansing I experienced meth.
So here I was 19 years old shooting up heroin, smoking meth and popping Xanax all at the same time. I was out of control and couldn’t stop myself, easily could of died multiple times. All of that continued until I met my now fiancé. I was hiding it from her for a while but she had an idea that something was going on. So I slowed down. Once an addict always an addict though. So the drugs weren’t going anywhere. I was just really good at hiding what I was doing.
March 20th, 2017 we had our son. He opened my eyes and made me change… or so I thought. Only months after I was doing the same ole thing. By May of 2018 her and I split up for a small amount of time and I become suicidal. I put 5 different drugs in my arm all at once. I thank god that I am still here after such a bold move. I ended up getting sent to the hospital to make sure I was going to be ok. Thankfully I was. They then sent me to a psych ward for that. I definitely did not belong there I thought, but they gave me the choice to go to rehab. I went to rehab on May 17th and before I left rehab I inquired knowledge of an injection called VIVITROL.
I was all for trying it when I left. I set up an appointment and got this VIVITROL shot, which this shot is an opiate blocker and also helps with having any urges whatsoever. Ever since I’ve gotten this shot and gotten help at a rehab I’ve been clean since. I am so happy to be a hard working family man for once in my life. I just wanted to tell my story because I never hear about this VIVITROL from anyone and I strongly encourage anyone with opiate addiction to look into it. I hope this helps a few people open their eyes and also saves a few lives. Appreciate anyone who’s took the time to look over this.