Comments on: The Cleaner Based on Warren Boyd Life of Addiction and Recovery http://thecleaner.info/2008/12/the-cleaner-based-on-warren-boyd-life-of-addiction-and-recovery/ The Cleaner TV Series is about a recovered heroin addict who is on a mission to save other drug addicts. Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:47:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Tonya B http://thecleaner.info/2008/12/the-cleaner-based-on-warren-boyd-life-of-addiction-and-recovery/comment-page-1/#comment-3106 Tonya B Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:16:43 +0000 http://thecleaner.info/?p=635#comment-3106 My email is blonde_bomb_97@yahoo.com I started a new suboxone program today and it seems that i'm doing this all alone, my parents are not supporting me at all, they are already talking about me failing before ive even had a chance to start. I have no support at all except for my children telling me they love me but at 9 and 6 years old they don't really understand and i don't want to tell them what is going on, they know i have a problem just not all the details. Im so scared with no support so if those of you that read this please pray for me or whatever it is that you do in your life, think of me, I need all the support i can get. I really want this bad this time and i especially want to prove my parents and family wrong, that i am somebody and i do have feelings and need love and support. My email is blonde_bomb_97@yahoo.com

I started a new suboxone program today and it seems that i’m doing this all alone, my parents are not supporting me at all, they are already talking about me failing before ive even had a chance to start. I have no support at all except for my children telling me they love me but at 9 and 6 years old they don’t really understand and i don’t want to tell them what is going on, they know i have a problem just not all the details. Im so scared with no support so if those of you that read this please pray for me or whatever it is that you do in your life, think of me, I need all the support i can get. I really want this bad this time and i especially want to prove my parents and family wrong, that i am somebody and i do have feelings and need love and support.

]]> By: mackenzie http://thecleaner.info/2008/12/the-cleaner-based-on-warren-boyd-life-of-addiction-and-recovery/comment-page-1/#comment-2686 mackenzie Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:43:02 +0000 http://thecleaner.info/?p=635#comment-2686 I'm wrighting this for some miricle that someone can help. My brother has had an addiction to coke and crack for many years. Lately he has gotten very deppressed and fallen harder into the drugs. It is killing him and he says he has no reason to live. If anyone tries to help he closes them out. He asks for help and then he goes right back. I watch the show the cleaner and hope that someone reads this and can help him and our family. hes not only killing himself but our very sick mother. He has 3 small children that need thier father and the way hes going he wont be around much longer. PLEASE HELP!! I’m wrighting this for some miricle that someone can help. My brother has had an addiction to coke and crack for many years. Lately he has gotten very deppressed and fallen harder into the drugs. It is killing him and he says he has no reason to live. If anyone tries to help he closes them out. He asks for help and then he goes right back. I watch the show the cleaner and hope that someone reads this and can help him and our family. hes not only killing himself but our very sick mother. He has 3 small children that need thier father and the way hes going he wont be around much longer. PLEASE HELP!!

]]> By: ro http://thecleaner.info/2008/12/the-cleaner-based-on-warren-boyd-life-of-addiction-and-recovery/comment-page-1/#comment-2622 ro Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:22:22 +0000 http://thecleaner.info/?p=635#comment-2622 Can anyone help me My xBF became addicted to Welbutrin, Alcohol and possible ritalin. He was a doctor and after much angst I had the Med Society do an intervention. Not only wont he speak with me - he still wont let any of his docs speak with me. I know he was evaluated but dont think he has agreed to residential rehab they are recommending. Does anyone know how long it will last until he is willing to talk to me again. He is still blaming me for his addictions. The referral was made this past August and his in-pt eval was for 2 weeks the beginning of sept Anyone experience this please let me know what happens and a possible time table thanks sso Can anyone help me
My xBF became addicted to Welbutrin, Alcohol and possible ritalin. He was a doctor and after much angst I had the Med Society do an intervention. Not only wont he speak with me – he still wont let any of his docs speak with me. I know he was evaluated but dont think he has agreed to residential rehab they are recommending. Does anyone know how long it will last until he is willing to talk to me again. He is still blaming me for his addictions. The referral was made this past August and his in-pt eval was for 2 weeks the beginning of sept
Anyone experience this please let me know what happens and a possible time table
thanks
sso

]]> By: lori http://thecleaner.info/2008/12/the-cleaner-based-on-warren-boyd-life-of-addiction-and-recovery/comment-page-1/#comment-2576 lori Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:04:50 +0000 http://thecleaner.info/?p=635#comment-2576 great show im a recovering addict, from the letters ,im so glad people are watching and waking up america to the severity of addiction thanks for getting people to think and wanting to get involved lori great show im a recovering addict, from the letters ,im so glad people are watching and waking up america to the severity of addiction thanks for getting people to think and wanting to get involved lori

]]> By: Drew http://thecleaner.info/2008/12/the-cleaner-based-on-warren-boyd-life-of-addiction-and-recovery/comment-page-1/#comment-2496 Drew Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:26:10 +0000 http://thecleaner.info/?p=635#comment-2496 I know what it's like to have somone holding a gun to your head while being bound by duck tape, all because of some drugs someone thought you took. I know what it's like not caring whether they pulled the trigger or not. I've used cocaine, smoked pot, done acid, X and multiple other drugs at any given time. I came from good family, and a good life, parents had money and all that. A lot like the people Warren helps, I just didn't appreciate it. I couldn't keep a job, wasted thousands of dollars on drugs and alcohol, totalled a car during a police chase. Although I never got a severe repremand, I woke up one day and realized that that wasn't the life for me. I decided to get my life in check. I had failed out of school the first time around. I was ready to do something. One day I woke up and decided I wasn't going to smoke pot anymore, and quit. about a week later I quit smoking cigarettes, a month after that quit using cocaine. I was good for about a 8 months, got a job went back to school and finished my college degree, the only thing I slipped on was smoking cigarettes. I found out my brother had stage 4 cancer which would later take his life about 3 years ago. I quit my job, and was into a few of the old habbits I had had before. I ended up totalling a car during a police chase at one point. Then I just decided it was time to move forward in life. A few months afterwards I got a good job. I met my fiance about a year after. I haven't smoked pot or done any drugs for a year and a half. I quit smoking cigarettes again a little over a year ago. While I still drink from time to time, I do understand what it is like to have struggles in life. I understand people that can just quit things cold turkey and stay sobber. I also understand that rehab will not work unless the patient truely wants to get better and there are people who truely want to help them, and not just collect a pay check like some people in a clinic. I tip my hat to Warren for helping people because he is driven to, and truely cares, and I also tip my hat to the people that volunteer in clinics, therapy circles, etc. I would like to help, if anyone needs someone to talk to I am always here. Silverness320@hotmail.com Peace be with you I know what it’s like to have somone holding a gun to your head while being bound by duck tape, all because of some drugs someone thought you took. I know what it’s like not caring whether they pulled the trigger or not. I’ve used cocaine, smoked pot, done acid, X and multiple other drugs at any given time. I came from good family, and a good life, parents had money and all that. A lot like the people Warren helps, I just didn’t appreciate it. I couldn’t keep a job, wasted thousands of dollars on drugs and alcohol, totalled a car during a police chase. Although I never got a severe repremand, I woke up one day and realized that that wasn’t the life for me. I decided to get my life in check. I had failed out of school the first time around. I was ready to do something. One day I woke up and decided I wasn’t going to smoke pot anymore, and quit. about a week later I quit smoking cigarettes, a month after that quit using cocaine. I was good for about a 8 months, got a job went back to school and finished my college degree, the only thing I slipped on was smoking cigarettes. I found out my brother had stage 4 cancer which would later take his life about 3 years ago. I quit my job, and was into a few of the old habbits I had had before. I ended up totalling a car during a police chase at one point. Then I just decided it was time to move forward in life. A few months afterwards I got a good job. I met my fiance about a year after. I haven’t smoked pot or done any drugs for a year and a half. I quit smoking cigarettes again a little over a year ago. While I still drink from time to time, I do understand what it is like to have struggles in life. I understand people that can just quit things cold turkey and stay sobber. I also understand that rehab will not work unless the patient truely wants to get better and there are people who truely want to help them, and not just collect a pay check like some people in a clinic. I tip my hat to Warren for helping people because he is driven to, and truely cares, and I also tip my hat to the people that volunteer in clinics, therapy circles, etc. I would like to help, if anyone needs someone to talk to I am always here. Silverness320@hotmail.com
Peace be with you

]]> By: Laura M. http://thecleaner.info/2008/12/the-cleaner-based-on-warren-boyd-life-of-addiction-and-recovery/comment-page-1/#comment-2406 Laura M. Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:31:41 +0000 http://thecleaner.info/?p=635#comment-2406 I want to thank you Warren. I got out of the treatment center in Tustin, CA in June 1996, and I went into one of your houses in Garden Grove. Your sister was the house manager at the time, and I had a court date that you were going to fly back to Baltimore and attend with me as long as I was working the program and following the rules of the house. My sponsor was a lady from New Jersey who was dating a guy who was Jimi Hendrix cousin. I forget his name it started with an O, and he passed away and had the biggest most loving funeral ever. He was sober and running some homes for boys in LA when he passed. Well, I was the girl who married Len P. from Rock Hill, SC who I met at the treatment center 20 days after leaving rehab-yeah we only knew each other for 38 days and got married. He was in one of your houses in Westminister. Well, we ended up moving out and into an efficency in Santa Ana. On the night I got my 60 day chip I tried to commit suicide. I will not go into the details of the how, because it was pretty darn near successful. I was in a coma and could not breathe on my own for weeks. I remember coming to with you and my then husband and I think a guy named Rob yelling BREATHE, BREATHE!!!!, as they were trying to remove the ventilator and see if I could breathe on my own. Well, I lived-obviously, started using again and went back to Baltimore. Len eventually went back to SC. I did finally get clean in 1998 after I became pregnant. I was prostituting and really out there. God did for me what I could not do for myself-I was arrested without bond and 5 1/2 months pregnant. I ended up being court ordered to a treatment center in Maryland for pregnant women. I stayed 6 months graduated, went to a shelter for four months, got an apartment, went to school, divorced Len. Married my high school sweetheart, who I was actually using with during my last days 9he has been clean since Feb. 22, 2002) and I have been clean since May 12, 1998. I now have two kids and I'm lving life. Thank you for introducing me to recovery and for being so patient and willing to help even after I gave up on myself. I saw you on the A an E special about you as the real cleaner and I was blown away. I ran out and told my husband and I called my mom but besides Len I really don't think anyone can appreciate the enormity of it all and how small the world really is. I have a billions of true stories that most people don't believe and all of which are true and sometimes unexplainable-or at least unexplainable in worldly ways-this is now one of them. But one thing is for certain the Lord knows and we will all see each other again my friend. Thank you. I want to thank you Warren. I got out of the treatment center in Tustin, CA in June 1996, and I went into one of your houses in Garden Grove. Your sister was the house manager at the time, and I had a court date that you were going to fly back to Baltimore and attend with me as long as I was working the program and following the rules of the house. My sponsor was a lady from New Jersey who was dating a guy who was Jimi Hendrix cousin. I forget his name it started with an O, and he passed away and had the biggest most loving funeral ever. He was sober and running some homes for boys in LA when he passed. Well, I was the girl who married Len P. from Rock Hill, SC who I met at the treatment center 20 days after leaving rehab-yeah we only knew each other for 38 days and got married. He was in one of your houses in Westminister. Well, we ended up moving out and into an efficency in Santa Ana. On the night I got my 60 day chip I tried to commit suicide. I will not go into the details of the how, because it was pretty darn near successful. I was in a coma and could not breathe on my own for weeks. I remember coming to with you and my then husband and I think a guy named Rob yelling BREATHE, BREATHE!!!!, as they were trying to remove the ventilator and see if I could breathe on my own. Well, I lived-obviously, started using again and went back to Baltimore. Len eventually went back to SC. I did finally get clean in 1998 after I became pregnant. I was prostituting and really out there. God did for me what I could not do for myself-I was arrested without bond and 5 1/2 months pregnant. I ended up being court ordered to a treatment center in Maryland for pregnant women. I stayed 6 months graduated, went to a shelter for four months, got an apartment, went to school, divorced Len. Married my high school sweetheart, who I was actually using with during my last days 9he has been clean since Feb. 22, 2002) and I have been clean since May 12, 1998. I now have two kids and I’m lving life. Thank you for introducing me to recovery and for being so patient and willing to help even after I gave up on myself. I saw you on the A an E special about you as the real cleaner and I was blown away. I ran out and told my husband and I called my mom but besides Len I really don’t think anyone can appreciate the enormity of it all and how small the world really is. I have a billions of true stories that most people don’t believe and all of which are true and sometimes unexplainable-or at least unexplainable in worldly ways-this is now one of them. But one thing is for certain the Lord knows and we will all see each other again my friend. Thank you.

]]> By: f http://thecleaner.info/2008/12/the-cleaner-based-on-warren-boyd-life-of-addiction-and-recovery/comment-page-1/#comment-2367 f Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:27:26 +0000 http://thecleaner.info/?p=635#comment-2367 I'm not an addict. That is i don't use. But after tonites show they said his addiction is my addiction. So that makes me an addict. My late husband was addicted to narcotics. I tried and tried to get him to quit taking pills. He would for a while or he would slow down for a while but in the end if i said anything he would take more. I never realized until tonite that made me a addict. He O.D. 2 years ago and left me with all the bills and kids. I'm still here facing his addiction or should i say our addiction cuz it didn't just affect him. I’m not an addict. That is i don’t use. But after tonites show they said his addiction is my addiction. So that makes me an addict. My late husband was addicted to narcotics. I tried and tried to get him to quit taking pills. He would for a while or he would slow down for a while but in the end if i said anything he would take more. I never realized until tonite that made me a addict. He O.D. 2 years ago and left me with all the bills and kids. I’m still here facing his addiction or should i say our addiction cuz it didn’t just affect him.

]]> By: Rsharde http://thecleaner.info/2008/12/the-cleaner-based-on-warren-boyd-life-of-addiction-and-recovery/comment-page-1/#comment-2357 Rsharde Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:23:50 +0000 http://thecleaner.info/?p=635#comment-2357 This show is amazing. I have never been through any of the struggles the characters on this show have experienced and I hope I never have to. That this is based on a true story only makes it more intriguing. It's wonderful to know this kind of programming is on television as it's something far more important than just another crime drama/investigative science show. This is something that actually touches the lives of millions in a very personal way. I'm writing A&E to make sure this never goes away!! This show is amazing. I have never been through any of the struggles the characters on this show have experienced and I hope I never have to. That this is based on a true story only makes it more intriguing. It’s wonderful to know this kind of programming is on television as it’s something far more important than just another crime drama/investigative science show. This is something that actually touches the lives of millions in a very personal way. I’m writing A&E to make sure this never goes away!!

]]> By: sharon http://thecleaner.info/2008/12/the-cleaner-based-on-warren-boyd-life-of-addiction-and-recovery/comment-page-1/#comment-2306 sharon Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:24:15 +0000 http://thecleaner.info/?p=635#comment-2306 love your show. Thanks for doing this this is Gods work. love your show. Thanks for doing this this is Gods work.

]]> By: Daniel http://thecleaner.info/2008/12/the-cleaner-based-on-warren-boyd-life-of-addiction-and-recovery/comment-page-1/#comment-2300 Daniel Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:19:08 +0000 http://thecleaner.info/?p=635#comment-2300 i am so glad for a show like this. it shows the truth and the despare, but also the hope. i work at a treatment center in PA. We show clips of this show to the patients all the time. they know the inside of addiction, but to see it from the outside- what families have to deal with- what it looks like on someone else- what you can do to help others. you can see a change in their eyes when it hits them. when they let it. when they are ready. i know warrens story is front page, but there are many interventionists, and many treatment centers. the most important thing is to offer the help, and find a place where the patients treatment is determined by the recommendations not insurances. i am so glad for a show like this. it shows the truth and the despare, but also the hope. i work at a treatment center in PA. We show clips of this show to the patients all the time. they know the inside of addiction, but to see it from the outside- what families have to deal with- what it looks like on someone else- what you can do to help others. you can see a change in their eyes when it hits them. when they let it. when they are ready. i know warrens story is front page, but there are many interventionists, and many treatment centers. the most important thing is to offer the help, and find a place where the patients treatment is determined by the recommendations not insurances.

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