Royal Pines Recovery Stories

By the time he was old enough to drive, Mark was mingling with the popular kids on campus and experimenting with alcohol, marijuana, and Ultram, a narcotic-like pain reliever. While many young adults turn to drug use as a result of peer pressure or a catastrophic life...

Nick began consuming alcohol and smoking marijuana in his mid-teens, but it was the six prescriptions of pain medication following numerous surgeries that ultimately ignited cravings for increased potency. “I had biopsy surgery,” he said. “One day I took two pills...

Although Matt had used drugs at least occasionally for much of his adult life, the recreational high took a much darker turn after his father passed away in 2001. “We were very close,” he said. “We had a lawn-care business together and when he died it really messed me...

Casey began experimenting with recreational drugs when he was just 14-years-old, but by his early 20s methamphetamines had outpaced Lortab, Adderall and cocaine as his drug of choice. “I started using opiates when I was 17 or 18,” he said. “I’d had surgery and was...

Experimentation with opiates began at the age of 17 to help offset the negativity he experienced from social anxiety and mild depression, but by his early 20’s Stuart found himself suffocating in a constriction of chemical dependency that had woven its tentacles into...