Drug Addiction Stories & Info

To all the younger generations out there, and I am speaking to the 16 year olds out there.

I want to express myself to you and let you aware of all the negative and bad consequences there are to using drugs and alcohol. At such a young fresh start in your lives, use your clean, clear-minded thoughts and put them to good use.

There are many directions we can go in our lives and taking the right path can change your whole life. I can speak from experience that at many occasions I did not always make the right choices and it has caused me to be where I am today—in a rehabilitation center, focusing on cleaning up my life at the age of 45.

I have made a lot of wrong decisions with my life and the consequences of those choices have cost me a lot of money and an enormous amount of interference with all aspects of my life. If you want to be within the group at your age, please be wise and take the right path that will benefit you in the long run. You will be a lot happier person with great inspirations to do positive things with your life. Please do not get into the wrong crowd just to fit in.

There is a lot of help out there, but avoid those bad choices and stay strong. You will be a better person for making the right decision. Stay away from Drugs & Alcohol use.

Jackie K

I was always a rebel child ever since I could remember, I think being rebellious came naturally to me. Defying my parents and going against what they wanted me to do seemed to be my sole mission. I always thought the generation gap was much wider, and with every passing phase it only got worse.

As I turned 16 my life turned a new leaf, I started skipping school. I’d even sneak out the of house in the dead of night and sleep among the homeless. I nurtured this deep feeling that no one ever understood or loved me. Skipping school and leaving home, gave me a complete sense of freedom.

The look I sported was trashy, unkempt hair, ill fitting and dirty clothes, the punk style with the ‘I don’t care attitude’ was my favorite. With loud colors that scream ‘look at me’ and garish makeup I felt really safe hiding beneath all of it.

Since I would hang around the streets at odd hours, it really wasn’t difficult for me to get drugs; I would often be asked by small time peddlers if I needed any. I used to refuse, but ended up buying some with my pocket money and the money I had gathered from working at the deli. One possible reason could be that because of my angst, I had no friends and was looking for some.  There were some I knew from school who were already into it, and bought from the same peddlers.

I was doing chemicals like LSD, and I quite liked it, it took me to another world that I could associate with easily. I slowly became more adventurous and hooked on to anything I could afford and lay my hands on. I wanted to graduate even further, and was looking for something that would satisfy me, that’s when I noticed heroine. In the mean time, I was kicked out of my home, since I stole some money from my parents, used their credit cards to take care of my needs. Lost about 10 pounds, and was doing the rounds of shelters where I could spend my nights in. I soon discovered heroine and the feeling was indescribable. I now needed to shoot drugs into my blood stream, and was totally hooked on heroine for a year.

My parents had to look for me, and found me out on the streets one day; I think what they seen came to them as a shock. I was taken home and cleaned up, the confrontation was long. I didn’t agree instantly. It took me several months to pick up the phone and call the drug addiction rehab. Since then I have been clean.