Drug Addiction Stories

Addiction never affects just the addict. It affects their friends, loved ones, co workers, neighbors and community. Josh was a promising young man fresh out of high school with ambitions of becoming an international interpreter. He was popular, fun to be around and had a bright future ahead of him.

It was Oxycontin, an opiate in the same line as Heroin and Morphine.

College was about to start for Josh and he was making his party rounds before he left. Normally, Josh would have a soda and pass on the drinking and drugs. Everyone still loved it when he came to their party. That night, though, Josh ignored his better judgment. He didn’t drink and he didn’t do any of the cocaine that was laid out on the table.

Someone handed him a pill.

“It’s a pain pill…a harmless little pain pill but it’ll make you feel great!” said his friend.

It was Oxycontin, an opiate in the same line as Heroin and Morphine. Josh didn’t know that part though. As he popped the pills into his mouth, his friend told him to chew them and not just swallow them, so Josh did. Within a few minutes, he felt as he never had before in his life. He felt warm and fuzzy and felt a total connection with the universe. He had never felt this good before in his life. It was almost a cosmic sort of feeling and he would not had believed it if he weren’t experiencing it.

Josh asked his friend what those pills were and if he could get some. This was the second mistake Josh made. Of course his friend could hook him up, no problem. It would cost a few (many) dollars, though. Josh handed over the money and took the bag of magic pills with him as he left the party. What a night to remember this would be! When he got home, he fell into a peaceful sleep and when he woke the next morning, the first thing he thought of was those pills.

“Ah,” he said to himself, “it can wait until tonight. I have things I need to get done.”

Josh went about his day but he thought about those pills more than once. He told himself he would try more tonight when Jennifer came over to watch television. The day passed and that evening, Jennifer showed up for their evening together watching movies.