Drug Free Mindset Show
Today we are excited to have Tino Martinez from Modesto as our guest
When was the first time you experienced drinking or drugs?
Age was in 6th grade Started drinking beer at 15 years old
And did this drinking lead to anything else?
Heavy partying
How old were you when you first began doing drugs?
7th Grade
What became your drug of choice?
Crank and then meth
What or who influenced you to start doing drugs?
Friends and family
What was some of the things you were doing while you using?
Every day just spending everything on the drugs
What was the worst thing you did?
Tried to commit suicide
What was the price of you using drugs? With your friends, your family, other relationships? Did the addiction cost you everything?
Had no place to go because he burnt all his bridges because he would steal, served time in jail, wife kicked him out with no place to go
Did you ever steal from your family or others to support your habit? Did you do anything illegal?
Stealing from family, strong armed robbery
After you realized you couldn’t stop using, what did you tell yourself? Did you just continue to get high because you thought there was no hope?
Just kept getting high and didn’t care
What was the worst point or the turning point in your life, that you knew you needed help, and then you began to seek help? What happened? What was like emotion like?
He had no place left to go
Now that you’ve recovered, what word of encouragement would you like to give someone who is struggling with addiction?
If he can do it you can do it
Do you believe God can restore their life? How about with their family and loved ones?
God restored his family
Do you believe that outside forces will ever stop trying to tempt someone in recovery? Why do you believe that? Have you experienced these temptations? In what ways have you experienced these temptations?
You get victory through the temptation, it’s a way of testing that you can overcome
Once someone is out of a recovery What steps do you believe that someone will always need to do, to stay clean?
Always be accountable