Let's Talk About Drugs.

All too many young people are receiving mixed messages and inaccurate information about drugs. -John Walters

Sure, everyone wants to look for that minute to escape, but alot of drugs don't make you feel right, take it from someone who knows. I had continuously tried drugs for the past couple of years experimenting on this and that. However, they might have made me feel good for a small amount of time, but the after effects were not as great. Most drugs are made to make you feel a certain way, and often times good, but afterwords you feel worse. Your body feels worse along with your mind. Prescription drugs are the worst because if they are not used as directed they often lead to side effects such as: kidney disease, liver failure, brain damage, coma's, panic attacks, mental disorders (i.e. schizophrenia, depression, and manic-depression.), among the fact that you lose the ability to care about anything but getting out and partying.
     I have now been sober for almost 5 months from everything except alcohol. Drugs do not fix your problems, and mixing pills and alcohol is about the worst decision you can make. I have a friend who I just recently learned had overdosed and is now in the hospital. He mixed  Xanie's with Alcohol, Marijuana, and Spice. He fell into an unconscious state, and because of this his body was trying to reject the drugs making his stomach try to pump itself resulting in puke that looked like black tar. No one knows how he is doing in the hospital, and the group of friends that he was with were reluctant to call the hospital at first.
     If you ever happen to come into a situation like this it is best to call the hospital and inform them of the persons condition. If you do not do so in a timely manner, the person could die. You make think that's it's their fault for mixing all the drugs, and you may have tried to warn them; but when someone is on the verge of dying the best route is to make sure that they are at a hospital where some professionals can take care of them. Depending on how much the person took, they still might die, but you doing the best you can is all that matters. If you happen to have a friend who overdoses do not blame yourself because it is not your fault.

    I knew a guy who was addicted to heroine, he was homeless and all he wanted was someone to love him and to help so that he could stop his drug use. He had gotten his younger brother addicted to it and because of that he had overdosed and died. This man, let's call him Blake, was very torn up about the situation. Blake was only 19, with a family who did not really care about him or his whereabouts. Because of his drug addiction he could not find a job and often times spent his night either bumming it a friends house or spending the night behind a dumpster. Him, and the other heroin addicts that he hung out with would panhandle around the area that they lived in, asking before for money 'for the bus' or for gas for his friends car. I know that it is a recession and that times are hard, but getting addicted to a drug that takes over your whole life does not help the situation at all. Blake died, 2 years ago on Christmas from a heroin overdose behind a dumpster in some part where no one knew him. Blake died alone because of his addiction.
     If you think you are addicted or have a friend who is, please seek help immediately. These deaths are 100% preventable.

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe. -Armistead Maupin