I started to smoke pot in the army in 1992. In 1994, opium was added to that which I injected, as well. That's the drug I stuck to when I left the army and I spent a lot of money on it. I was like a marionette and couldn't keep away from the opium, also because the people in my environment didn't help me with my escape attempts but rather offered me drugs again and again. That way I took opium almost daily for over four years, depending on how much money I had.
In December, 1997, I was introduced to Bruno Groening's teaching. Soon I felt an inner aversion to opium and did not want to meet with my friends to smoke drugs anymore. Since March, 1998, I am free. I don't even think about the drug anymore.