Drug Addiction Stories & Info

Cocaine use and addiction has been around for centuries.  With wonderful rehabilitation centers around to help overcome the addiction to cocaine and other drugs, people can strive to win out over it and move on to healthy and productive lives.  Cocaine does not discriminate. You try it, you keep at it, you can get addicted.  Rich or poor, black or white, blue collar or running for President of the United States.    Barack Obama let the cat out of his own bag when he confessed his cocaine use in a memoir he wrote following law school: Dreams of My Father.

Let us not forget that there have been other men in the White House who have admitted to drug use when the question was asked.  Some made light of it such as Clinton.  George W. Bush admitted stuff he did as a kid and considered his college years part of that time.  They both went on to make both good and bad decisions in the hot seat but so has every man who sat there.

As to whether Obama was addicted or not, it seems his use must have been quite minimal because it is easy to become addicted to cocaine.  His legal drug of choice is smoking cigarettes, a habit that has always seemed ironic to non-smokers.  It is legal to smoke yet second-hand smoke can be deadly.

Obama made light of his cocaine use on the Jay Leno show.  When asked the Clinton-shadowed question: “did you inhale?” he said “that was the point.”  Still, it would be a wise and beneficial move by our current President if he would take his experiences with cocaine and use them to teach our young people how to stay away from all drugs.  As it is, he seems to be the poster boy for having a beer on the lawn and smoking so maybe not.

However, none of us are perfect and if the President has only these two vices and can maintain the integrity of his position, kudos to him.  He obviously is not a cocaine addict or he could not function in the day to day responsibilities faced by the powerful head of the U.S.  It does lead one to wonder just what his actual cocaine use consisted of.  A moment in time perhaps, faced with peer pressure at a party?  Whatever the answer, perhaps young people can see that mistakes in the past can be corrected and they can have their spot in bringing good into the lives of others.