Bernard Groves has spent five years trying to quit methamphetamine.
He lost his job. He lost his car. He nearly lost his apartment. Worse than that, he says, his addiction has hurt his family.
“I went [to lunch] with my auntie and I saw such sadness in her eyes,” Groves said.
The 35-year-old checked himself into several rehab programs in San Diego and San Francisco hoping “to be that Bernard I used to be for the people that I love.”
But each time, Groves felt the progress he made in therapy morphed into people talking at him, telling him what to do. Eventually, he would always return to meth.