Drug Addiction Stories & Info

I am writing to tell you that at a young age I started to use drugs and lie to my family.  Doing so has caused a great rift between myself and the people I love the most.  It has caused heartache and pain almost leading to the destruction of the people that are there for you no matter what is happening in you life or the struggles you face.

Drugs and lying about drugs to your family is an extremely harmful action against the ones you love.

I will no longer be part of this, I want a healthy open honest relationship with the people I care about the most.

If you are doing this now please think about the ones you are affecting and the people you are supposed to care about the most.

K.M

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Many famous and influential people admit to having, or having had a drug habit and choose to go into rehab.

One shining star stands out in the crowd – hip hop rapper Snoop Dogg – singer, actor and entrepreneur who seems to thrive on weed – and promotes its use.

Snoop Dogg has been around for some time, and is one of those to succeed in getting off the street, and dealing in drugs like cocaine – a rap star yet a father, who coaches his kids in sport. An astute entrepreneur, Snoop Dogg  has founded a show biz empire worth over a hundred million, putting him up there with success stories like 50 cent, Eminem and Dr Dre.

Despite overwhelming success, Snoop Dogg is heavily into dope, living a lifestyle that promotes drug use in the form of marijuana.

 Snoop Dogg, who was born Calvin Cordozar Broadus in 1971, is said to have first used marijuana with his uncle – offered a roach at the age of 8, he was also encouraged to drink alcohol – Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull. Mary J hit the high spot for Snoop and he has been using it ever since.

One of Snoop’s recent efforts on Facebook comes out in support of presidential hopeful Ron Paul, an outspoken Republican with many years of experience.

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Ron Paul is a supporter of medical marijuana, and legalization of pot for adult use.

Snoop Dogg attracted recent publicity by getting arrested at a Texas border, being in possession of a smokeable amount of cannabis and related implements. Snoop has had many brushes with the law over the years, related to cannabis use and unruly behavior.

January 18, Snoop Dogg again is to be found in the news supporting marijuana. The news item says that the Dogg doesn’t smoke “Blue Ivy”, a new variety of brand name marijuana – named after Beyonce and J-Z’s famous new baby (apparently in absence of the parents consent or complicity). Snoop Dogg instead says that he is more into master kush, said to be a high quality hindu/skunk hybrid used as medical marijuana.

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Snoop Dogg has a California exemption to use kush as medical marijuana.

With Snoop Dogg looking at a collaboration with Paris Hilton, and to play at Coachella 2012, the Dogg’s career is still at the top.

Why does someone with the world at his feet, with all the success you could want – habitually, and repeatedly – bomb himself out on dope?

The proven side effects of marijuana use, in both the short and long term, indicate that it brings lethargy, the possiblity of lung, bladder and other cancers, and destroys the equilibrium of the mind, being associated with depression, schizophrenia, mood disorders, paranoia, disruptions of sleep and heart rhythms.

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On weed, Snoop Dogg said to Esquire magazine in 2008, “it makes me feel the way I need to feel”. Snoop Dogg doesn’t want to give it up.

High Times magazine voted him Stoner of the Year, in 2002, the same year that Snoop tried weed rehab – and lasted for four months, before returning to a habit said to be a hundred grams a day – a habit that Snoop Dogg is now said to have reduced by half.

 The attraction of and the addiction to weed can, in Snoop Dogg’s case be linked back to his early environment, a prevailing culture of drug use, the social use of weed and other drugs as commodities – the power to be in control of emotions, the power to earn money on the street.

The early use of marijuana can become a part of life. Without the drug people might feel unable to mentally or physically function. Consistently, with Snoop’s driven high performance, the energy of rap, life on the street brings with it high levels of anxiety, hypervigilance and hyperarousal – a world in which there is perhaps little trust and over reliance on violent means of exerting influence.

Weed essentially is a downer, that brings relief of tension. Much research confirms that we bring into our adult world, many of the patterns of behavior that we have learned to be effective, perhaps essential for our survival in our environment of origin. People move on, improve their lives, but old habits remain – to clear out the baggage from abusive earlier conditions of life we need – separation.

No matter what we achieve in life, in terms of outward success, we will never be happy or contented while the law of jungle still rules in our head.

Snoop Dogg says:

“It’s hard to say goodbye to the streets. It’s all how you do it. You can pass by and say “What’s happening?” and keep it moving, but it’s a certain element that’ll never be able to roll with you once you get to this level, because that’s the separation of it all.”

Drug use, the streets we can leave behind, but there will still be a craving,

unless we make a complete break from the mental, physical, social and cultural attitudes that

are defined by the environment of the street and the drugs.

People who have been born and raised in conditions of poverty, abuse, and endemic drug use will still have an attachment to their past – it is only natural.

To move on we need to be able to see our past from a position of separation and detachment, so that we do not bring into the present, our baggage from the past.

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If you want complete freedom from an abusive past, from related drug use, Narconon, in Canada, can bring an end to compulsive behavior and addiction, and related feelings of survivor “guilt” and depression.

Born in Alberta, 1982, and raised in British Columbia, Cory was, at the age of 5 able to read far in advance of his age.

However, with parents divorcing when he was 7, Cory was a troubled youth, who says that he went to around twelve schools before he was thirteen, including alternative programs. He was into drinking and drugging with his friends, and by the age of sixteen – this promising student quit school completely.

By age 19, worried family members put him into drug rehab, after an intervention, but Cory says – “I did the stint, but afterwards went back to exactly what I was doing before”.

 The turning point in Cory’s life – what might be called a spontaneous recovery, in fact was a result of many fortuitous circumstances happening at once, – enough to enable Cory to both question and then overcome the cycle of addiction that ruled his life. Not everyone is lucky enough to have everything in their favor,  at once, some will need professional, effective, and experienced help.

Having stolen money from family for drugs, he was told to get straight or he would be reported for theft to the police.

Knowing that he would be found out for the theft, Cory says that he now sees it as a cry for help – that was answered in terms that required him to take responsibility for his actions – to reconsider his drug abuse – and do something about it.

Although many children and youths flounder at that point, due to lack of effective support, Cory moved in with a family member, in a small town – where he was both offered employment as a roofer, and introduced to acting.

It was at this point that Cory decided that he was going to work out why he did drugs, to take a good look at his life. For the first time, Cory felt the satisfaction of “working hard” and being “good at something”.

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Monteith tells PARADE – a message for all – “I don’t want kids to think that it’s ok to drop out of school, get high – and that they will become famous actors too.”

In fact, for Cory there is, aside from the acting, a most important personal victory.

 He has obtained, through an alternative school – in Victoria, BC – his high school diploma.

And, in 2009, he re united with his father – after having virtually no contact with him, for over 17 years.

At some point Cory found forgiveness – of his parents and their faults.

It is often said that parents do the best that they can for their kids. It is not often that children can come to understand what this means – and totally forgive their parents for their mistakes, their failings.

Parents who do fail to love their children, and provide support, in every case will be found to have been, similarly deprived themselves.

As Cory says:  “At some point you realize that parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them”.

It is for each and every one of us to take responsibility for our own lives, regardless of the conditions we suffered, in our family of origin.

Some people try drug rehab, do a “stint’ and fail to make a recovery. Recovery from drug addiction is not so much about giving up drugs, but about recovery from conditions that have made us feel unloved, and unlovable. It is about re-evaluating our lives – from a position of self esteem.

To a young child, abandonment issues, when a parent for whatever reason, is no longer there, can feel as bad as actual abuse from a parent who remains in the home.

As Narconon President Clarke Carr has said – in his experience -” drug addiction is most profoundly a consequence of a person lacking life skills.”

The understanding and confidence to deal with life often comes to people only after many years of reactive self abuse, and addiction.

For Cory, now a Canadian “star” – with many achievements on his record, the glitz and glamor of “stardom” holds very little attraction. Cory maintains sobriety – a balance and happiness.

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 ”I’ll go out, but I leave early, before the shenanigans. I really don’t do the Hollywood party thing”. 

“I’d rather watch sports, watch videogames, play sport, workout or sleep, to be honest”, he says.

Having a life of your own, that is hardworking and successful, that is independent of other people’s values, and what you feel that you “have to do” has been achieved by Cory.

For young people in Canada who have got themselves into drugs, and for their parents, the situation can feel overwhelming, with lack of communication, lack of understanding.

Not all drug rehab is the same, not all families have a capacity to provide that much needed help to those members who have turned to drugs, to parents who feel at a loss, unable to help their children.

Narconon is in Canada, an international alcohol and drug addiction recovery program that enables people of any age to become free of drug addiction. No matter what the history, or the type of drugs that have been abused, Narconon offers comprehensive help to enable complete addiction recovery.

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The Narconon program provides thorough detox and full support – enables complete drug addiction recovery.

Graduates of the Narconon program have come to be and to realize that they are “good at something” – happy, contented and productive, in their chosen field.

Some might choose to go on and achieve a higher education,

but most importantly,

 Narconon graduates have self esteem – are completely drug and addiction free –

ready and able to start a new life – free of the chains of the past.