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You've seen them - glassy eyes in sunken
eye sockets, pale skin hanging off their bones. If you haven't
already guessed, I'm talking about junkies. They messed up at
some point in their lives by "experimenting" and got
addicted. Now they want you to try some, too. See how it helped
us? See how much better we are now? Come one, one hit won't hurt.
One smoke won't get you hooked. One little dose won't kill you.
Every single drug out there is addictive.
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That's the biggest load of crap I've ever
heard.
Drugs kill. You hear about it almost every day. Heroin overdoses,
pot laced with some deadly meth, LSD overdoses causing people
to think they are invincible, people dropping acid and then veering
off the road because "snakes" were attacking them. You
still think drugs seem like the way to go?
Listen up.
My close friend Darren smokes pot every day. He's also dropped
acid, shot up heroin, snorted coke, and done just about any other
drug out there, even the designer drugs. He's very lucky that
he's not dead. He's been in the hospital quite a few times. He
almost OD'd not too long ago.
Darren used to be one of those people who
say, "I won't get hooked. I'm too strong." Now he feels
like he's going crazy if he goes without a smoke every few hours.
Do you want to turn out like that? I didn't think so.
You never fully understand what drugs do to you unless you experience
it firsthand. But that doesn't mean to go out and try some stuff
just to get experienced. I have many friends who are addicted
to various things. Unfortunately, I was too dumb to let that tell
me not to try drugs.
I got myself addicted to inhalants and
pot. I'm still struggling with both of those things. Hearing that
is all it takes to prove to some people that drugs are the wrong
way to go. Other people, it does take a personal experience for
this to be driven home.
Every single drug out there is addictive. You may have to take
it more than once, but you will get hooked. Pretty soon, you have
to start taking larger doses to get the same high as your first
time. Later on, you need to take huge doses just to stay normal,
not to mention to get high. You end up investing hundreds -- more
likely thousands -- of dollars to keep up with yourself. Eventually,
you try other drugs to see if you can get a better high. Then,
to make more money, you start dealing.
It's really amazing how many different people buy. Men in business
suits, pregnant teens, ten-year-old runaways, old men and women
looking for a last thrill of life. Does that sound like a good
thing to get into? Would you feel good selling crack to a little
boy with a tear-stained face and dried blood on his lip? Would
you feel good seeing babies born as heroin-addicts, because you
sold to their mothers while they were pregnant? Would you feel
good if one day you were selling a person some very strong LSD,
and your mother drove by and saw you? Would you feel good if you
had to spend the rest of your life in rehab, rather than indulge
in your old dreams of owning a law firm?
Just remember this one thing, if nothing else: No matter how hard
it gets, no matter how bad it may seem, drugs will make it worse.
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