Illegal
drugs use and abuse can be very troublesome beyond the legal level for anyone
that is engaged is such activity.
My goal is
to use this blog to increase awareness of consequences that illegal drugs use can create in our lives.
When you use illegal drugs you can loose your personal
health, your love
ones trusts, your friends,
your self-respect, your freedom and even our life.
Is it really worth it? THINK ABOUT IT.
Personally, I have never used any illegal drug, also i don't know anyone that is using one.
ReplyDeleteI only see drug related incidences on television or read about them on the news and on the internet.
The legal matter is straight cut to the chase... you get caught using illegal drugs, you get in trouble with the law period. And that's the only thing that people really worry about. But sometimes getting in trouble with the law is really nothing compare to situations like loosing your life or accidentally taking the life of someone else because of the "high effect".
Someone stated that the best way to convey the truth about drugs is through the words of those who have “been there.” By telling their stories, they can pass on what they have learned so others avoid going down the same path.
ReplyDeleteBelow is John's story...
“My goal in life wasn't living...it was getting high. I was falling in a downward spiral towards a point of no return. Over the years, I turned to cocaine, marijuana and alcohol under a false belief it would allow me to escape my problems. It just made things worse. I had everything, a good job, money, a loving family, yet I felt so empty inside. As if I had nothing. Over twenty years of using, I kept saying to myself, I’m going to stop permanently after using this last time. It never happened. There were even moments I had thought of giving up on life.” —John
John used illegal drugs for 20 years... i am not sure how he managed to use them that long without ending up at least in prison or loosing his life. But we can assume from what he wrote that he probably lost his money, his family and his job. I don't think that anybody would want to end up the way John did. Unfortunately when drugs get involve in one's life, he or she has no other path than that downward spiral...
An other story i read about meth, and though i share with my block readers... Her name is Melanie and this is her experience with meth...
ReplyDelete“When I gave my three-year-old son some cheese to eat, I did not know that I was giving him poisoned food. I was too stoned on meth to notice it until twelve hours later, that my son was deathly ill. But then I was so stoned it took me two hours to figure out how to get him to the hospital five miles away. By the time I got to the emergency room my boy was pronounced dead of a lethal dose of ‘ammonia hydroxide,’ one of the chemicals used to make meth.” —Melanie
That's how low drugs can hit you when you get high
Keven that is a pretty sad story! Working in the ER you will see alot of things like this that makes you very angry at drug addicts. I think that personal experiences and reading stories like this can help a younger generation truly understand that drugs are terrible and that they damage everyones life around the users, not just the user.
DeleteWould he still alive if it wasn't for the alcohol involve?...
ReplyDeleteIn one of my previous post, i claimed that I didn't know anybody involve in any substance abuse. Maybe i didn't directly know anybody that uses and abuses alcohol and other toxic substances but i sure work with many people that do, considering the fact hat my entourage consist of Marines.
This story that i am about to tell takes us back few weeks earlier this month... That Monday, all the marines from my unit came back to work from their weekend liberty except for one. The unit First Sergeant held a formation to announce that the Marine wasn't at the formation because he was in the coma, intoxicated, and with a head injury. Nobody knew any detail about what exactly happened to him. Law authorities investigations didn't lead to any other source except for the fact that the Marine was very intoxicated from heavy alcohol consumption.
Two weeks later our unit Commander held another formation during which he stayed silent for a little bit (probably because of the emotion) and then said: "This is one of the toughest thing i have to do as a Commander, is to announce to you that we have lost one of our brother" he then stated the Marine's name and told us that he passed away after 2 weeks of fight for his life in the coma. The Marine's parents were with him at the hospital when he passed away. All my prayers go to them, I also ask anyone that reads this post to pray for them because as my Commanding Officer said, there is nothing more painful than to outlive your own child.
The whole unit painfully this beloved great Marine that we all had a chance to work with at least once given the importance of the responsibilities he held in the unit.
Please be aware that alcohol is a serial killer with ten thousands way of killing. Its actions can affect you directly as well as the people around you.
IS THE TEMPORARY PLEASURE WORTH THE LIFELONG PAIN?
ReplyDeleteGranted that i never used any illegal substance or abused alcohol beverage or legal and prescription drugs. But after reading some of the stories and the testimonies posted on this blog, i felt what's it like when substance abuse hit someone low. The pain and the cost can be permanent for the user and his love ones. The price that people could invest in substance abuse ranges from lost of honor and dignity, lost of freedom and lost of lives.
And given the fact that help is available, it's on peoples' best interest to seek help for themselves or for their love ones that can't get help for themselves, in order to effectively fight against this public health issue that is substance abuse.
This post will be my last one, if anyone was following me on this blog, thank you for your interest and remember that the higher you get on drugs, the lower and harder life will hit you.