Your PCP can talk to you about your symptoms and help you find a local provider for a substance abuse evaluation. In many cases, attempting to taper off of drugs and alcohol on your own can be dangerous and life-threatening and should not be attempted outside of a detox facility or without the supervision of a doctor. Your PCP may be able to give you an assessment or direct you to someone else who can. Assessment is your first step toward treatment. It determines if detox is needed and what treatment plan will work best for you. You'll meet with an addiction professional like a counselor, doctor or nurse who specializes in substance abuse. You'll answer questions about your current use, health, past addiction treatment and medical history. A physical exam may also be a part of the evaluation. Contact your health insurance. Tell them you need to find a local provider for a substance abuse evaluation. Ask your insurance about your benefit coverage and costs. Contact the provider and schedule an appointment. Contact the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMHSA) administration if you don't have insurance. SAMHSA provides referrals for addictions and mental health treatment, including substance abuse evaluations. They can also help you find low cost and state-funded options: http://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helpline. Detox is different from treatment. Detox is the first step before you can begin treatment. It's the process of weaning or tapering from alcohol or drugs so your body can function without these substances. Detox takes days or weeks. The detox program will vary based on the type of addiction. Alcohol and many drug addictions, like heroin, require medically supervised detox since they cause severe physical withdrawal when stopped. For medically supervised detox, medications are used to control withdrawal symptoms. Your vitals, like your pulse and breathing, are closely monitored. You'll either stay at a facility or detox at home until you are fully weaned and physically stable. The results of your substance abuse evaluation will determine your treatment plan. Whether you tapered from alcohol or drugs on your own or through medically supervised detox, treatment is crucial to remaining clean. The frequency and intensity of treatment, also known as the level of care, varies based on your personal situation and needs. Treatment involves a combination of individual and group counseling, and possibly medical monitoring. Inpatient treatment is living 24/7 at an addictions recovery facility. This is the most intensive treatment. You'll participate in individual and group counseling programs. Your activities are structured. A team of addictions and medical professionals manage your care. Intensive outpatient is spending more than 9 hours per week in treatment. You typically go to an addictions treatment facility. You live at home and often can maintain responsibilities like work while attending treatment. There are programs tailored to adults who work. They take place during evening and weekend hours. Outpatient treatment is attending individual and group addictions counseling a few hours each week. You might attend treatment at an addictions facility or at a counselor's office. This is the least intensive treatment. As you improve and maintain sobriety, you'll move from a more intensive to a less intensive level of care. For example, you might start as inpatient, go to intensive outpatient and finally move to outpatient treatment. Most people who are successful at kicking alcohol and drug addiction for good stay in treatment for years. Staying in treatment helps prevent relapse. If you do relapse, you'll be able to get back on track more quickly because you're already connected to treatment professionals.

Summary: Talk to your Primary Care Provider (PCP) for help. Get a substance abuse assessment or evaluation. Start detox. Start treatment. Make a lifelong commitment to recovery.

Place the SD card back in its slot inside the disk tray. Press the "Power" button on the front of the Wii to do so. In order to use the Homebrew Browser, your Wii must be connected to the Internet. You should see this icon on the home page of the Wii. Doing so brings up the Homebrew Channel pop-up window. It's at the bottom of the window. This option is in the top-right corner of the screen. Your Wii's new Homebrew Browser will launch; from this point, you can search for and download things like games and apps as you please. The Homebrew Browser will display several lines of code upon startup. This is normal.

Summary: Insert the SD card back into your Wii. Power on your Wii. Make sure your Wii is connected to the Internet. Select the homebrew channel. Select Start. Select HOMEBREW BROWSER.

If you want to write sad stories, you'll have to start by seeking inspiration. Consider what makes you sad. For about 10 minutes, free write on the topic of sadness. Talk about the kind of situations that make you sad. There are a lot of changes that come in life that can make people sad. Friendships and other relationships ending can cause sadness. The death of a loved one can also make someone sad. Sadness can also be caused by more minor events. Losing a family pet can be sad. Having to move to another city can be a cause of sadness. Consider what you think sadness is. What thoughts and emotions do you associate with sadness? As you write, talk about your own personal experiences with sadness. For example, when in life did you feel the most sad? Why? You may be able to use experiences from your own life in a short story. The best way to become a better writer is to read more. If you want to know how to write sad stories, you'll have to read a lot of stories with unhappy themes and plots. Read sad stories. Ask your friends and teachers for recommendations for sad stories. As you read, do so actively. Pay attention to how writers build their stories and characters. How do the stories start? How do they end? Why do you have an emotional response to these stories? Ask yourself these questions as you read. Pay attention to what works in these stories. When writing a short story, you only have a short period of time to get your reader's attention. As you read short stories, pay attention to opening lines. How does the writer get your attention? Where does the story start? Many short stories may start when some of the important actions or events have already occurred. Authors may recount such events in flashbacks or imply them through means like character dialogue. If you want to write a story, you'll need to know basic story structure. Stories are made up of exposition, rising action, a climax, falling action, and a resolution. The first parts of the story come with exposition and rising action. Your exposition comes at the beginning of the story. This is where you explain who the main character is and what he or she is doing at the beginning of the story. Exposition should be brief and grab the reader's attention. A story's rising action is the series of conflicts that move the story forward. No story can exist without a problem that needs resolving. In a sad story, there should be an element of tragedy to that problem. For example, maybe your main character is caring for her sick dog. The rising action could include her taking the dog to the vet, finding out the sickness is worse than she thought, and struggling with the setbacks and challenges of her dog's medical needs. Once you've figured out basic story structure, write a short outline for your story. Write out how your story will begin, what rising action you'll include, the climax, and how the story is resolved. An outline can be brief. It's not necessary to use full sentences in an outline. You just need to have some sense of the basic events that will occur. You can separate your outline into the five elements of story structure: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution. An outline should use numbers and letters for structure. Big headings, like "exposition," can be marked with a roman numeral. You can use letters or regular numbers to elaborate on aspects of that heading. For example, "I. Exposition, a. introduce Susan." To help you see how to write an outline, let's return to this article's example. You could begin the outline with something like this: "Exposition, a. Introduce Ada, crying in art class, b. Sad to be reminded of her father's cancer, c. Returns home alone (her mother is at work) to help care for her ailing dog."
Summary: Free write about sadness. Seek inspiration. Learn how to begin a story. Outline your story.