Drug Addiction Stories

This title speaks the truth.  Everyday more people are becoming addicted to drugs, and eventually starting something that will do more harm then good.  This short new video details the pain of an addiction very well. It is a very chilling glimpse into what can and will happen and where an addict can potentially end up if they do not seek help.

Drug Addiction Kills

Unfortunately, the only two places most drug addicts end up, is either in a treatment center starting a new life, or they eventually end up in the morgue.  Scary to think about, but it happens. The more people that spread the truth about drugs; there will be more people saved from drug addiction.

At the height of his career, David Bowie, whose given name at birth was David Robert Jones, and cited to be one of the most influential writers of the pop age was hiding a secret that few knew. A secret that many hide, he was addicted to cocaine.

David Bowie's Cocaine Addiction

While David Bowie was on his “Diamond Dog” tour, he was cited as living on a diet of milk, hot peppers, and yes, cocaine. During the height of his drug addiction, videos and interviews show him sniffling almost constantly, and responding to the questions with answers that only David Bowie could understand.

His appearance was almost ghostly, with his thin pale structure and gaunt face. It doesn’t seem ironic that one of his more well know alter egos was known as ‘The Thin White Duke’, in which the title alone seemed to personify his very appearance. It has even been reported that during the height of his drug addiction that he weighed a meager 95 pounds.

Eventually David Bowie was able to kick his cocaine addiction and used his celebrity rock-star status as a way to reach others who were also struggling with cocaine and other addictions. He became an advocate for anti-drug usage and reaches out to children and adults alike warning them of the lingering affects after drug use is discontinued, sometime enduring for the rest of a persons life. David Bowie has been quoted in the past as saying that “He has unbelievable holes in his memory, along with his mind being like Swiss cheese, and suffering emotional damage.”

Like David Bowie, there are many celebrities and musicians who also suffer from cocaine addiction and other substance addiction. It shows that cocaine and drug addiction can strike anywhere, any place, anytime, and doesn’t care who you are, or whether you’re a celebrity or rock-star.

The fact that so many celebrities, such as David Bowie, have made the decision to use their life experience to share with others and possibly touch the life of another and keep them from walking down the same path is inspirational and encouraging.

It humanizes them, and allows people to relate to them, when generally people tend to put celebrities on a pedestal and exempt from the everyday life struggles and choices that we all face. The truth is, they’re people just like we are, with a gift and an opportunity to share their story, which could make all the difference in the life of another

I was just like any normal teenager with a life that was normal, filled with activities, sports and was a brilliant student at academics as well. Probably a sort of kid every parent would want to have, not until I fell into the wrong group, made just one wrong decision that turned my whole life and youth around. Little did I even know that it would grab my entire life in its claws and squeeze every bit off me as well as those close to me.

Like other addicts, my childhood was not filled with turmoil. I had the best of parents, good education and many good friends. When I ended up in college, I wanted to be even cooler and much more popular than I was. I ended up making a few wrong friends who were already into cocaine and smoked marijuana. Something I knew about, but hanging around them gave me some sort of aristocratic feeling. Until one evening at a friend’s gala birthday party, I was smoothly forced into taking just a drag. Then I didn’t think I would end up being an addict, what went through my mind then was that I would definitely have the will power to over come it.

Although being envied for showing the best will power, I acted against it. I ended up asking for a bit on occasions. Very soon these occasions were frequent and the frequency only increased, and so did the cravings. I soon used up all my saved money that I had collected from working part time. I couldn’t even afford it anymore! The least thing on my mind was loosing any of my friends or my job. And to my utter surprise that’s just what happened. Not that I cared much about it, since all that was on my mind was where I would get the best cocaine.

Now I have just a few friends that I can count on just one hand, don’t go out much too often. Dislike meeting people and think I am really cool. I have no explanation to this addiction and how I can get rid of it. Some part of me wants to quit strongly, but it seems so impossible. The day I plan to do so, the cravings get even more intense, and I end up doing cocaine even more. I am like a zombie now, with not many interests that attract my attention. When I am high on cocaine, I am on a roll and in seventh heaven.

I need to get out of this drug addiction really quick; I do know subconsciously of the consequences and might even probably suffer from them. I am at a desperate stage now, and would like someone to help me get rid of this addiction.