Drug Addiction Stories

As people filed past the coffin, tears streaming, I’m sure they were wondering how different Kim’s life could have been.

It always seems like a terrible nightmare when you have to attend the funeral of a young person.  The younger the person is, the more terrible the nightmare.  Kim was only 15.  As people filed past the coffin, tears streaming, I’m sure they were wondering how different Kim’s life could have been.

There were people there from all walks of life but many of them obviously were family friends.  Kim was dressed in a pair of jeans and a nice white blouse with long sleeves.  Her hair was pulled back, as it had been in life.  The morticians did a good job but they could not erase all of the signs on Kim’s face.  Kim was a drug addict and had died as a result of that addiction.  Kim had become an addict at the age of 12.  That’s when her aunt introduced her to crack cocaine.  Kim, who had been a slightly above average student slowly, started dropping in her grades.  She spent more and more time at her aunt’s place so she could party with her aunt and her friends.  Kim’s mom knew her sister did crack but she never thought in a million years that she would give any to Kim.  Kim’s mom worked hard to provide for Kim and her brother.  Now, her baby was gone and although she tried to cope, shortly after the funeral she began to smoke marijuana.  Rocked by grief and not knowing where to turn, her life began going downhill and along with hers and her son’s.  She just didn’t know where to turn, what to do to stop the hurt so she filled it with drugs.  First marijuana, a little cocaine, and then a little more cocaine.  She quit her job and started selling weed.  She just wanted her little girl back, but what she didn’t realize is that she was part of the drug addiction trap.

Most people do not start out doing drugs with the intention of becoming drug addicts.  Most do it to have fun, or perhaps to ease pain.  Kim probably started to have a little fun and perhaps out of curiosity.  She not only became addicted, but also ended up overdosing at the tender age of 15.  Her Mother had been able to avoid drugs in her life because she focused on her children and knew the history in her family.  The death of Kim was just too much, so the cycle continued.