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Overcoming Addiction Since 2013
Help To Stop seeks to empower those struggling with addiction to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives. Our medically informed, holistic addiction treatment works for those struggling with addiction and their loved ones who struggle with the ripple effects.
At Help to Stop, we pride ourselves on being one of the UK's foremost experts in advanced treatments for stopping alcohol and drug use, as well as other addictive behaviours. Over the past decade, our committed team has successfully aided hundreds of private clients in overcoming dependencies on substances such as alcohol, cocaine, crack, nicotine, heroin, opiates, and various medications.
Our approach to treatment is distinct. We greatly value the feedback from those who attend our programmes, and over the last ten years, we've amassed a vast amount of testimonials from clients all over the UK. This feedback is crucial - it goes beyond just treatment; it's about life transformation. These stories of change and recovery are what inspire us to continue our work.
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RICHARD'S LIFE CHANGING STORY
Before I set up HELP TO STOP in the South / South West of the U.K. I was addicted for four years to Crystal Meth-amphetamine. I started taking Crystal Meth / Ice in 2010, initially by smoking 1 gram a week, and ending up smoking 1 gram a day, and sometimes up to 2 or 3 grams a day.
I only ever smoked it via a pipe. These photos below clearly show the effect it had on me. They were taken between 29th of August 2010 and September 2012.
The photos below were taken in July 2015. A complete transformation . . . . .
I Started taking the Crystal Meth at the beginning of 2010. Before the treatment I had tried a couple of times to come off it on my own. If anyone reading this is hooked or has been hooked on crystal Meth they will know exactly what I mean. Trying to come off is an extremely painful experience. I can best describe it as what I could imagine at the time as a truck running over my bones. The sweating was just awful showering every 2 to 3 hours. The mental side of withdrawing very depressing deep deep depression, a lot of crazy thoughts. I tried twice to give up over the 3/4 years I just couldn't do it. It was just too much pain in more ways than one.Treatment started on the 20th of November 2013 for two hours each day, over a total of five days. The first day I arrived for my appointment I had some bands put on my wrists and was connected upto a machine, told to lay back in the chair and relax. I was obviously a little bit nervous of what was going to happen. I was waiting for some sort of pain to be sent threw my wrist. NO PAIN!! quite the opposite very relaxing. Actually I fell asleep. I woke towards the end of the treatment after two hours, feeling very relaxed, a bit sleepy, but soon felt great. I traveled back home, about a two hour journey, feeling very relaxed. I remember waiting for the withdrawal to kick in, but it didn't. I got back home and was again waiting to have sweating, pain and withdrawal of some sort. NOTHING!! I went to bed, had a great sleep, and then traveled up to London the next day for my next appointment.I can remember well on that day I was waiting for something to happen. Pain, sweating, mentally feeling messed up, but nothing. I felt really very good. 2nd Treatment was the same as the 1st. Straps on the wrist linked up to the machine and fell asleep. i Woke up feeling very good, relaxed and went home on the train.NO PAINNO WITHDRAWALNO SWEATINGNO MAJOR SADNESS. 3rd Treatment was the same as the 1st and 2nd. Straps on the wrist linked up to the machine and fell asleep. Woke up feeling very good, relaxed and went home on train.NO PAINNO WITHDRAWALNO SWEATINGNO MAJOR SADNESS. 4th Treatment was the same as the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, straps on the wrist linked up to the machine and fell asleep. Woke up feeling very good, relaxed and remember feeling so good I decided to go for a walk around before going home on train.NO PAINNO WITHDRAWALNO SWEATINGNO MAJOR SADNESS. 5th and final Treatment was the same as all the others. Straps on the wrist linked up to the machine and fell asleep. Woke up feeling very good and relaxed. It's hard to explain how I felt, but I walked around for a couple of hours with a huge smile on my face feeling really good. This feeling lasted about two weeks.NO PAINNO WITHDRAWALNO SWEATINGNO MAJOR SADNESS. It's very hard for me to explain and get across how well this treatment works.All the above is my true experience. Below is a copy of what I wrote after two weeks from having my 5th treatment. CRYSTAL METH DETOX TESTIMONIAL'I was using a gram a day of crystal meth. The treatment was so easy. I sat connected to the equipment and relaxed, The first day had an 80% reduction, second day 90%. By the third day 100%. The rest of the treatment was to make sure. On the first day I felt fantastic, no pain in my bones and all very easy. I Slept well, was eating well, was a little hazy in the head but by the second day I was feeling very clear in the mind. I was waiting for the pain, but I never had any. I am writing this after two weeks. I don't even think of having any crystal meth. To sum it up, it's all been incredible life changing. The staff are fantastic. They make you feel so relaxed'. Mr R.J. One of the most important things is that you have to want to give up.Not because someone else is telling you to do so, but because you want to. Secondly and very important, and as hard as it might be, give up your friends who use. I understand this is a very sad and hard thing to do, but from my experience something that I believe helped. I was very lucky, and still am, to have such a fantastic family and now new friends around me.I have set this up to help others and save other people's lives, just as it saved mine.