Short introduction

The question I am repeatedly asking for couple of years sounds like this: What happens with the identity of someone who has stopped using illicit drugs? This is also my central research question for a dissertation project within my Ph.D. study in social psychology at Masaryk university, Brno, Czech Republic. As a Fulbright research scholar in Houston Galvestone Institute, USA, I am currently trying to find some answers based on interviews with former methamphetamine users who recovered without formal treatment. Finally, I want to use these answers to improve the drug services of NGO Podane ruce in Brno, Czech Republic where I have worked for five years. I´ve heard lots of interesting stories about recovery and self-change in my work,
during my research and also reading the blogs and the website of Wired In. Let´s talk about it...

P.S. Just before my departure to USA, I have stopped smoking. I wonder what will happen with my identity... For sure, I will replace the picture in my profile if I will not smoke after I come back to Brno...